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Columns::April 22, 2002
Now open for business
Legislature approves merit-based salary raise pool of 3.25 percent
U.S. senators Gramm and Miller will address seniors at Commencement
Finalists chosen for VP for instruction
Penn State University administrator will head physical plant
Russell Library showcases late senator’s baseball card collection
Well versed: Creative writing professor leads a busy life
UGA hosts roundtable discussion as part of Africa Initiative
Promotions
Tenure
Members of promotion, tenure reveiw committees are announced
Maximum load: Provost discusses efforts to increase credit-hour production
Campus News
Russell Award
Three UGA faculty members will receive Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the 2002 Faculty Recognition Banquet in the Georgia Center on April 25. Russell Awards recognize outstanding teaching of undergraduates by faculty in their first decade of teaching. Winners receive $5,000 from the Richard B. Russell Foundation of Atlanta.
C. Ann Hollifield
Assistant Professor of Telecommunications
Practice what you teach.
That’s what Ann Hollifield does in her media management classes at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass
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Communication, and that’s a great part of what makes her an outstanding teacher.
When students step inside Hollifield’s class, they are engaged and inspired. She engages her classes as a manager rather than as a teacher, and inspires them by “identifying the strengths [of her students] and fostering them.”
Former students now working in the telecommunications profession say that they still “refer back to her lessons” and that her teaching helped them “enter their careers very well versed in the media business.”
They credit her with “having played a tremendous role in their successes in both academic and professional worlds.”
Students are “treated as colleagues, not pupils” by Hollifield. They appreciate her ability to bring both professional experience and research to her teaching. She is able to connect the classroom with current industry issues.
As one student explains, “her years of experience in the field, enthusiasm to teach and sincere consideration for her students’ success make her classes extremely interesting and worthwhile.” Hollifield empowers her students to reach their own goals, personally and professionally.
She is also actively engaged in teaching scholarship that is making a difference on national and international levels. Her research focuses in two areas: media management and economics, and the effects of media and communication systems on the wider economy.
“Ann is fundamentally committed to making a difference in the lives and the careers of her students. She is a role model, mentor and coach. It is wonderful to see such excellence rewarded,” says Alison Alexander, head of the department of telecommunications at the Grady College.
Stefanie Lindquist
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Stefanie Lindquist has one major goal for students: to practice self-reliance rather than self-effacement. That attitude is one that
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Lindquist herself has followed with increasing success during her career in the department of political science and soon the School of Public and International Affairs.
Her teaching has been marked by innovation, critical acumen, and a genuine love for teaching, according to Thomas Lauth, interim dean of the new school.
“From 1996 to 2001, I estimate reading several hundred written student comments about Lindquist’s teaching,” says Lauth. “Not only were the comments always positive, but they usually amounted to rave reviews.”
Lindquist has the academic credentials to back up her specialty in law and the courts. After receiving a bachelor’s degree with honors in 1985, she earned a law degree--magna cum laude--from the Temple University School of Law. She then earned a doctoral degree in American politics, public law and public administration from the University of South Carolina.
With practical experience in a law firm, a clerkship with a federal appeals court judge, and a stint with the Federal Justice Center in Washington, D.C., Lindquist has been able to bring her broad background into the classroom with notable success. In her first year on the faculty, she developed a new undergraduate Honors course on voting rights, which she co-taught with her colleague Charles Bullock, one of the most noted political scholars in the country. Following up on that, she organized and received funding for a state-of-the-art conference on voting rights that drew many of the country’s top researchers in the field to Athens.
She has taught undergraduate classes in judicial process and behavior, criminal law, and voting rights, and graduate courses in administrative law and legal theory. In addition, she has carried on an active research program that has made her a rising star in national circles.
“Dr. Lindquist is enthusiastic and compassionate about what she does, and it is evident from the fact that she inspires students to surpass their own expectations,” wrote one student who studied with her in 1999. “I can honestly say she had a tremendous impact on me as a student by encouraging me to go beyond my own personal expectations, and for that I am grateful.”
Marc L. Lipson
Assistant Professor of Finance
Marc Lipson’s legacy as an instructor lies in his ability to provide students with real-world knowledge and to give them the
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understanding needed to apply that knowledge outside the classroom. Lipson uses a case-study approach that challenges his students to learn by developing “solutions” to each case problem they’re presented. Despite the fact that Lipson’s courses are among his department’s most difficult and his case studies present a learning challenge, 97 percent of his students have awarded him perfect evaluation scores in the past three years.
Former student David Battle says, “I believe that Professor Lipson’s applied corporate finance class is one of the most challenging and useful classes offered by the finance department. Today, the notes that I took in that class can be found on the wall in my office and are often utilized as a reference in solving problems and thinking about companies and situations.”
Students also value Lipson’s dedication to them outside the classroom. “What I believe truly distinguishes Professor Lipson is his focus on students even when he is not standing in front of a board,” says former student David Black. “In the classroom, in his office, or even on the intramural softball fields, Dr. Lipson always made himself available for individual interaction with his students.”
Students and colleagues alike applaud Lipson’s dedication to his own research and student research. “I am most impressed with Professor Lipson’s ability to balance his outstanding research record with a commitment to supporting undergraduate students in their own research endeavors,” says Jere Morehead, director of the Honors Program. “He has led the Terry College in working with the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities by teaching research seminars and supervising undergraduate research. I can think of no greater demonstration of his commitment to undergraduate teaching than his willingness to provide this level of individual attention to undergraduate students seeking to develop their own research skills.”
Pamela Kleiber, associate director of the Honors Program, says, “In my opinion, Professor Lipson is the epitome of the enlightened and engaged professor--a true good citizen of this university community.”
Meigs Award
Regents Award
Undergraduate faculty mentors recognized at CURO Symposium
Outstanding teachers, Outstanding Advising, Research Awards
College of Education Faculty Awards
Pharmacy Teacher of the Year
Terry College of Business Faculty Awards
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