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
- General Education Award for Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Geary Albright
- General Education Award for Early Career Excellence: Dr. Leonard Richards
- General Education Innovation Award: Professor Karan Deengar and Dr. Natalie Kerr
Distinguished Teacher Award
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
- Spring 2020
- 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
General Education
