The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the university’s faculty awards, recognizing faculty achievement and excellence. Winners will be honored during the 2024 Celebrating Faculty Excellence event in September.
Distinguished University Professorships have been announced via campus email and are also available here.
Regents’ Professorships will be announced separately at a later date.
Faculty Awards
OUTSTANDING FACULTY ACHIEVEMENT
Tenure Track
- Claire Spears, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health
- Lauren Margulieux, Associate Professor, Department of Learning Sciences, College of Education and Human Development
This award recognizes a tenure-track faculty member for outstanding achievements across all three areas of scholarship, teaching and service. It is open to Georgia State graduate faculty members at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank who have been at Georgia State University for at least four years.
A list of previous winners is available here.
Non-Tenure Track
- Al Thrash, Professor of Practice, School of Music, College of the Arts
- Erin Vinoski Thomas, Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health
This award recognizes a non-tenure track (NTT) faculty member for outstanding achievements in their assigned areas of specialty (scholarship/creative works, teaching, and/or service). It is open to Georgia State faculty members who have been at the institution for at least four years at an NTT faculty rank.
A list of previous winners is available here.
KAVITA K. PANDIT MENTORING EXCELLENCE AWARD
- DaShaunda Patterson, Clinical Associate Professor, College of Education and Human Development
- Valerie Matthews, Professor, Department of English, Perimeter College
This award, named in honor of Dr. Kavita K. Pandit, Professor Emerita and former Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, recognizes a faculty member who has shown an outstanding dedication to the mentoring of other faculty members. As identified by the Collaborative on Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) faculty satisfaction survey and action plan, the award helps to fulfill the need to increase mentorship at Georgia State and to recognize excellence in this pursuit.
The winner of this award demonstrates a commitment to fostering the intellectual, creative, scholarly, and professional growth; shown a sustained commitment to a mentoring relationship resulting in career growth; and an overall history of service and mentorship to faculty. This award acknowledges the time and dedication faculty mentors devote to foster the career development and academic success of other faculty at the university.
A list of previous winners is available here.
EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AWARD
- Erica Tracey, Lecturer, Neuroscience Institute, College of Arts & Sciences
- Lara Dahl, School of Music, College of the Arts
This award recognizes faculty members for exceptional, sustained and impactful accomplishments in service. This award competition is open to all Georgia State full-time faculty members who have at least four years of faculty employment at the university.
A list of previous winners is available here.
INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS
Instructional Awards through the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Online Education (CETLOE)
INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
- Sarah G. Clark, Lecturer, Neuroscience Institute, College of Arts and Sciences
The purpose of the Instructional Effectiveness Award is to recognize an instructor who demonstrates a strong commitment to teaching and student success and to share at the university level outstanding approaches in instruction that are creative and effective in engaging students in the learning process. All GSU full-time faculty are eligible to apply. The evaluation criteria are the strength of the learning principles or theories, the persuasiveness of the analyses of evidence of learning effectiveness, and the potential of the approach as a model for application across other courses and programs.
A list of previous winners is available here.
INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION
- Christopher L. Brown, Principal Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
The purpose of the Instructional Innovation Award is to recognize and share at the university level outstanding innovations in teaching that result in improved learning. This award recognizes innovative teaching practices designed to improve student learning in online, blended, or face-to-face courses. Innovations may include any novel teaching strategy or tool designed to enhance student learning.
A list of previous winners is available here.
TEACHING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEMOCRACY
- Frank C. Lee, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Management, J. Mack Robinson College of Business
The purpose of this award is to recognize and reward instructors who integrate current social justice issues into their courses to better engage Georgia State students in order to help them to develop their social, emotional and expressive capacities. This award recognizes instructional strategies that have been used to successfully incorporate social justice themes into various disciplines and result in positive student outcomes.
Information about previous winners is available at the CETLOE website.
— Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager, Office of the Provost