Each year the University’s most prestigious honor, the President’s Award for Excellence, is bestowed to faculty and staff excelling in the areas of research, teaching, artistic activity, faculty service and staff service. Meet this year’s recipients.
In her 12 years as Professor and Gallery Director at Southeastern, Cristina Molina is proud of the high-caliber artistic research and scholarly activity she has achieved on a regional, national, and international level. This includes 16 solo and two-person exhibitions and 43 group exhibitions.
Associate Professor of History Keith Finley began his time at Southeastern in 1996 as a graduate student. As a masters candidate, he dabbled in the areas of history that would shape his research. While a student, he completed a paper that examined Lyndon Johnson’s tenure as Senate Majority Leader. From that paper he began to narrow his focus to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. While researching the subject, he became interested in the arguments southern politicians made against civil rights laws.
What makes an effective teacher? Opinions on the subject vary, but Alan Cannon, this year’s winner of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, says for him it’s being well-prepared for class, willingness to modify evaluation methods, and efforts to prepare freshmen and sophomores for upper-level courses.
Carlos Doolittle has a storied history at Southeastern.
