The second annual faculty awards for Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning were presented yesterday by 天美影院Educational Outreach.
The awards honor faculty who taught or designed courses, seminars or workshops aimed at working adults and other nontraditional students, and who received excellent teaching evaluations for that work. A committee of 天美影院faculty and 天美影院continuing education administrators chose the winners. Each winner received a plaque and a $1,000 award.
This year鈥檚 winners are:
Ruth F. Craven
Craven, professor and associate dean of educational outreach & community relations, School of Nursing, has been at the 天美影院for 34 years, both as an administrator and as a teacher of gerontological nursing. She has been involved in the planning of hundreds of educational programs specifically tailored for professional development, including a post-master Nurse Practitioner Program and the Perioperative Nursing Certificate Program. She has also worked with the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She has been involved in an effort to promote partnerships in nursing education between the three 天美影院campuses, a project funded by President Richard L. McCormick鈥檚 Tools For Transformation initiative. Craven holds a doctorate in education from Seattle University and a Master of Nursing degree from the UW.
Gerry Philipsen
Philipsen, professor and chair, Speech Communication, teaches and researches topics in ethnography of communication, small group discussion and decision-making, and orality. He has been involved in distance learning since 1996, developing two courses in speech communication. More recently, he was one of three 天美影院faculty who participated in a pilot program to test the first 天美影院undergraduate distance learning courses to be offered in the regular schedule. As chair of the Faculty Senate in 1999鈥�2000, Philipsen also worked to change how the 天美影院records distance-learning classes in student transcripts. Philipsen holds a doctorate from Northwestern University.
Richard Strickland
Strickland, lecturer and research scientist, School of Oceanography, has taught continuing education classes through 天美影院Educational Outreach for the past nine years. He has stewarded the distance-learning course Oceanography 101, updating the class with the latest field knowledge and the newest technologies and resources available in online learning. His teaching style and mastery of the distance-learning format have earned him high marks from his students. Strickland is also a free-lance science writer and served as a staff science writer for the 天美影院School of Oceanography. He is a doctoral candidate at the 天美影院School of Oceanography, where he also earned his Master鈥檚 in Biological Oceanography.