FACET Class of 2001

‘FACET University’ convenes May 18-20

By Karen Everdon

Hamilton

Orr

IUPUI’s Bob Orr and Sharon Hamilton will succeed South Bend’s Eileen Bender as program directors, and FACET headquarters will move to the Indianapolis campus.

They join a distinguished group of IU faculty members who have been chosen annually since FACET’s inception in 1989, bringing FACET’s current membership to a total of 322 award-winning faculty.

FACET awards are presented to IU faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to teaching, an ability to be catalysts for students and colleagues, a capacity for self-evaluation, creativity in course preparation and presentation, skill in integrating instruction, research and scholarship, and influence and impact on student learning, said Eileen Bender, who directs FACET from its headquarters on the IU South Bend campus.

The new FACET members, along with the third recipient of the P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching, will be honored before a group of university administrators, trustees, FACET alumni and special guests at the 13th annual FACET retreat, which will take place May 18-20 at the Fourwinds Resort on Lake Monroe in Bloomington.

The theme of this year’s retreat will be “Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations,” in recognition of the transition of FACET leadership from Bender, who has directed FACET since 1989, to new co-directors, Bob Orr and Sharon Hamilton of IUPUI; FACET’s move to a new location on the IUPUI campus; and the development of new ways to involve FACET’s members in important higher education issues at the campus, regional, state and national levels.

Participants at the 2001 FACET retreat will be offered opportunities to experience and reflect upon traditions, transitions and transformations of students, faculty and higher education itself, as the Fourwinds Resort is transformed into “FACET University,” featuring classes in such diverse areas as statistics, geosciences, languages, writing poetry, T’ai Chi and much more.

FACET is designed both to recognize and enhance outstanding teaching throughout the IU system and to promote continued development of teaching excellence among colleagues at IU and beyond.

In recent years, FACET’s efforts have expanded both at the campus level and statewide. FACET activities planned for 2001 include the sixth annual Indiana Faculty Leadership Institute for post-tenure faculty with support from both the president’s office and the office of the vice president for student development and diversity.

Again being partnered with Purdue University, this year’s institute will focus on infusing diversity and equity into the curriculum. Other FACET programs include the sixth annual Associate Faculty Conference, the fourth annual Future Faculty Teaching Fellows conference in partnership with Research and the University Graduate School, and further involvement in the Carnegie Scholarship of Teaching initiative at both a campus and national level.

FACET members have also created two popular publications, Quick Hits and More Quick Hits: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers, as well as an instructional video called What’s A Teacher For? Master Teachers Reflect on a Powerful Learning Experience.

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The 2001 FACET honorees

IU Bloomington:

Paul Eisenberg, Professor of Philosophy

Catherine Fraser, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies

Kevin Glowacki, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Douglas Knapp, Associate Professor of Recreation and Park Administration

Kathy O. Smith, Assistant Professor of English

Paul Voakes, Assistant Professor of Journalism

IU East:

Edwina Helton, Assistant Professor of English

IPFW:

Kathy Pollock, Assistant Professor of Accounting

IUPUI:

Cindy Borgmann, Assistant Professor of Art Education

(Herron School of Art)

Eugenia Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Computer Technology

Pamela Jeffries, Assistant Professor of Nursing

Richard Magjuka, Associate Professor of Business & Distributed Education

Jean Robertson, Assistant Professor of Art History (Herron School of Art)

Ralph (Andy) Schaffer, Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership & Supervision

IU Northwest:

Linda Delunas, Assistant Professor of Nursing

Mark Hoyert, Associate Professor of Psychology

IU South Bend:

Anne Brown, Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Education

Pankaj N. Saksena, Assistant Professor of Accounting

Monica Tetzlaff, Assistant Professor of History

Rebecca Torstrick, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

IU Southeast:

Vijay Krishna, Associate Professor of Communication

Mimi McKay, Assistant Professor of Nursing

Diane Reid, Lecturer in Speech Communication