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Recipients

Valparaiso University Excellence in Teaching Award
Year Award Recipient(s) Category of Excellence  Academic Unit
2024-2025 Daniel Maguire Mentoring/Advising Electrical & Computer Engineering
2023-2024 Jay Grossman Mentoring/Advising Civil & Environmental Engineering
2022-2023 Luke Venstrom Pedagogy Mechanical Engineering
2022-2023 Ken Luther Course Development Mathematics & Statistics
2021-2022 Lara Pudwell Mentoring/Advising Mathematics & Statistics
2020-2021 Jeff Doebler Mentoring/Advising Music
Sara Gundersen Course Development Economics
Carlos Miguel-Pueyo Pedagogy World Languages & Cultures
2019-2020 Salena Anderson Course Development English
Tiffany Kolba Course Development Mathematics & Statistics
2018-2019 Sami Khorbotly Mentoring/Advising Electrical & Computer Engineering
Colleen Seguin Pedagogy History
2017-2018 Jennifer Bjornstad Pedagogy Foreign Languages & Literatures
Danielle Lavin-Loucks Mentoring/Advising Sociology/Criminology
Kevin Ostoyich Course Development History
2016-2017 Zuhdi Aljobeh Mentoring/Advising Civil Engineering
Sandra Bleza Course Development Nursing
George Pati Mentoring/Advising Theology
2015-2016 Robert Clark Mentoring/Advising Chemistry
Douglas Tougaw Course Development Electrical & Computer Engineering
2014-2015 Stacy Maugans Mentoring/Advising Music
Shahin Nudehi Mentoring/Advising Mechanical Engineering
Jan Westrick Pedagogy Education
2013-2014 Mark Budnik Mentoring/Advising Electrical & Computer Engineering
Kevin Jantzi Pedagogy Chemistry
Lissa Yogan Course Development Sociology/Criminology
Caterpillar Award for Excellence in Teaching
Year Award Recipient Academic Unit
2012-2013 Linda Ferguson Music
2011-2012 Scott Duncan Mechanical Engineering
2010-2011 Sandra Strasser Information and Decision Sciences
2009-2010 Jaishankar Raman Economics
2008-2009 Kevin Hoffman Christ College
2007-2008 Kristen Mauk Nursing
2006-2007 Mark Farmer Classics
2005-2006 Theresa Kessler Nursing
2004-2005 Mary Christ Accounting
2003-2004 Shirvel Stanislaus Physics and Astronomy
2002-2003 John Ruff English
2001-2002 Elise Alverson Nursing
2000-2001 Bart Wolf Geography and Meteorology
1999-2000 Daniel Hart Electrical and Computer Engineering
1998-1999 Janet Brown Nursing
1997-1998 Paul Contino Christ College
1996-1997 Fred Niedner Theology
1995-1996 Kenneth Klein Philosophy