After twenty years of recognizing colleagues with the annual Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), the General Education Council moved forward in 2025-26 with a series of new awards to recognize excellence. The four new awards still acknowledge that good teaching in a General Education classroom can differ from teaching a course in the major, though there are similarities. They also expand the awards into new categories.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025-26 General Education Awards:

• Provost Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching (formerly the DTA): Dr. Johnathan Walker 
• Dr. Margaret Mulrooney Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Geary Albright
• General Education Award for Early Career Excellence: Dr. Leonard Richards
• General Education Innovation Award: Professor Karan Deengar and Dr. Natalie Kerr

Previous Winners:                                                                           

• 2025: Julie Sorge Way 
• 2024: Martin Cohen
• 2023: Masoud Kaveh Baghbadorani
• 2022: Christopher Bachmann
• 2021: Graceful Pivot Award 
  • Spring 2020
    • Daniel Blumling 
    • Mary Gayne 
    • Catherine Hessick 
    • Thomas Hynd 
    • Oscar Jud 
    • Morgan Smalls 
  • Fall 2020 
    • Yamilette Chacon 
    • David Daniel 
    • Danielle Derise 
    • Allison Fagan 
    • Celestine Woodruff
    • CHEM 131 Team 
• 2020: Michael Trocchia
• 2019: Kimberly D.R DuVall
• 2018: Claire Lyons
• 2017: Geary Albright 
• 2016: Kathleen Ferraiolo
• 2015: Deborah Warnaar 
• 2014: David Daniel 
• 2013: Kristen St. John
• 2012: Amanda Biesecker 
• 2011: Carole Nash 
• 2010: John Ott 
• 2009: Kit Murphy 
• 2008: Michael M. Moghtader 
• 2007: Jeffrey T. Andre
• 2006: Lynn S. Fichter
• 2005: Carol A. Hurney
• 2004: Craig Abrahamson