ECC faculty to receive national award for excellence

Posted January 16, 2017 10:00 pm

Elgin Community College

Five Elgin Community College faculty members will be recognized by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development for their teaching and leadership excellence in institutions of higher education.

Recipients of the 2017 NISOD Award for Excellence are Chalyce Deterding, Assistant Professor I of Mathematics; Michelle Kelty, Adult Basic Education (ABE) Unit Adjunct Faculty; David Lawrence, Math Unit Adjunct Faculty; William Pelz, Professor II of History and Political Science; and Patrick Stewart, Assistant Professor I of Culinary Arts and Hospitality.

The recipients will be honored at either the NISOD annual convention or the League for Innovation Conference next year.

Additionally, all five recipients' names were also submitted to receive the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award.

Founded in 1978, NISOD is an organization dedicated to the professional development of faculty, administrators, and staff; and to the continued improvement of teaching and learning, with the ultimate goal of student success. NISOD has members from more than 700 community colleges around the world.

For more information, call Toya Webb, communications specialist, at (847) 214-7769.

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