Jackson Community College

Outstanding Faculty
Nomination forms for the 2008 awards
Nomination deadline - Feb. 28, 2008

Congratulations to our 2007 recipients of the following awards:

Each year one-full time faculty member at Jackson Community College is selected to receive the J. Ward Preston Outstanding Faculty Award. The recipient is chosen on the basis of:

1. Excellence in teaching techniques
2.  Maintaining superlative rapport with students
3. Use of innovative and interesting approaches; and 
4.  Complete sense of dedication consistent with the finest traditions of Jackson Community College.

 Jim Scott has taught at JCC since 1980 in the health and physical fitness department, teaching fitness courses as well as stress management and wellness. He has been recognized for outstanding teaching by Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and has co-taught the Instructional Skills Workshop with Professor Mary Belknap, highlighting the best practices in teacher education for undergraduate and graduate education students. He received the Governor’s Award for Physical Fitness for creating an online wellness course, and is in the process of development an online stress management course. Scott has served on the original Jackson County Wellness Committee, the National Community College Wellness Conference Committee, JCC Corporate Wellness Program, and was a member of the successful 1985-86 All American City Committee for Jackson.  He is married to his wife, Lisa, a teacher at Concord; they have three adult children. 

Outstanding Adjunct Award -  Lisa Nanni Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering Dept.

 For helping students understand the mysteries of mathematics, the Outstanding Adjunct Instructor Award went to Lisa Nanni, who teaches at JCC’s Hillsdale LeTarte Center. Nanni is an electrical engineer who has taught part-time as an adjunct in Hillsdale for eight years. Several students nominated Nanni, citing her continuing efforts to help them understand mathematics both in and out of the classroom, as an excellent teacher and one who gives of her own time to tutor when needed. Nanni and her husband, Dino, live in Concord.

Nominations

Students, faculty, administrators, and staff members are eligible to nominate faculty to receive these awards. Nominations are received during the months of September through February of each year. Nomination forms are available in each instructional building. Completed nominations should be sent to the Dean of Arts & Sciences office in BW 227.

Nominations should address as many of the four criteria listed above as possible, and must provide specific reasons why the nominee should receive the award. The quality, rather than the number or length of nominations will be considered by the selection committee. Nominations must be submitted by the end of February. Nominations should be typed or legibly hand written. Only one person must sign each nomination. No unsigned nominations will be considered.  See below for nomination forms.

Forms:
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        J. Ward Preston Outstanding Faculty Award    and   Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award
                for Full Time Faculty                                                  for Adjunct Faculty

                                                 
                                                2006 Outstanding Faculty         2005 Outstanding Faculty  
           06/24/2008