Climate Enhancement Award
CLIMATE ENHANCEMENT AWARD FOR FACULTY & STAFF
The purpose of the Climate Enhancement Award is to recognize contributions by any faculty, staff or student to the pursuit of the College's diversity agenda. The award criteria are as follows:
- Open to all faculty, staff and students
- Demonstrates commitment to fostering an environment in which diversity is understood, valued and promoted
- Demonstrates leadership in the elimination of discrimination
- through encouragement of understanding among persons of different ethnic origins, races, sexes, age groups, religious heritage, sexual orientation, and disabilities
- Demonstrates commitment to meeting the special needs of students, faculty, staff and clientele who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups
Recipients:
- 2018 faculty and staff award winners with Dean Monk.
2017/18: Samantha Walker, Administrative Support Assistant in Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
2016-17: no nomination
2015/16: no nomination
2014/15: Dirk Copland, Administrative Support Assistant in Learning and Performance Systems
2013/14: Charleon Jeffries, Coordinator for Diversity Education in the Penn State Affirmative Action Office
2012/13: Rose Baker, Assistant Professor of Education
2011/12: Robert Clark, Associate Professor in Learning and Performance Systems
2010/11: Edgar Farmer, Professor in Learning and Performance Systems
2009/10: Gail Boldt, Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction
2008/09: Keith Wilson, Professor of Rehabilitation Services; and, Paul Datti, doctoral candidate in Counselor Education
2007/08: Richard Hazler, Professor of Counselor Education in Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education; and, Eugenio Longoria Saenz, doctoral candidate in Learning and Performance Systems
2006/07: Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Instruction
2005/06: Maria Schmidt, Assistant Dean of Multicultural Programs