MEMORANDUM

TO:                              Deans, Chairs, Academic Unit Heads and Faculty

FROM:                       Mordean Taylor- Archer,

                                      Vice Provost for Diversity and International Affairs

                                                                      Linda L. Wilson,

                                                                      Co-Chair, Commission on Diversity and Racial Equality (CODRE)

DATE:                         December 4, 2010

SUBJECT:        Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award

The UofL Diversity Programming committee of CODRE and the Vice Provost for Diversity and International Affairs would like to announce the selection process for the Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching award. The intent of this teaching award is to affirm, value, honor and recognize members of the university teaching staff (full- or part-time; undergraduate, graduate and/or profession) who incorporate multicultural and global perspectives into their scholarship, teaching practices, curriculum and research. Nominees must have demonstrated excellence in their teaching and scholarship through the utilization of teaching styles, culturally pluralistic and socially constructed ideals, and course content and processing incorporating multicultural and global perspectives.

We invite you to nominate university teaching faculty from your college and/or academic units for this prestigious presidential teaching award.  This is the eleventh year that the University of Louisville has recognized multicultural teaching in a university-wide award. The 2011 Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award will be presented at the 2011 Celebration of Faculty Excellence.

Nominations should be forwarded to Dr. Mordean Taylor-Archer, Vice Provost for Diversity & International Affairs, Grawemeyer Hall, University of Louisville. Please submit nominations on the attached nomination form, with a supporting nomination letter from the nominator, no later than February 21, 2011. A Nominee Statement with supportive documentation will be requested of each nominee by the selection committee which will be due to the committee no later than March 11, 2011 for consideration.

If there are questions, inquiries and/or concerns, please contact Dr. Linda L. Wilson, chair, Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching award selection committee at 852-0274 or llwils01@louisville.edu

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                               Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award

The Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award is designed to affirm, value, honor and recognize members of the University teaching staff who have incorporated multicultural and global perspectives into their scholarship, teaching practices and research; accepts the educational principles that cultural literacy should be infused into the core of scholarly research and that education transmits the cumulative knowledge of human kind reflected in a global society; incorporated educational principles and teaching practices that encourage and promote both content and process reflecting the fundamental contributions of diverse groups; encourages and engenders critical thinking, while utilizing varied educational materials strategies and texts.

The recipient for the 2009-2010 academic years was:

Professor. Jerry Tolson,  School of Music, Music Education & Jazz

The recipient for the 2008-2009 academic years was:

Dr. Michael Fowler, Political Science Department

The recipients for the 2007-2008 academic years were:

Dr. Ede Warner, Communications Department

Honorable mention:

Dr. David Owen, Philosophy Department

The recipient for the 2006-2007 academic year were:

Dr. Vicki Hines-Martin, School of Nursing

Honorable mention:

Dr Ellen McIntyre, Teaching and Learning, School of Education and Human Development

The recipient for the 2005-2006 academic years was:

Dr. Margaret D’Silva, Communications Department

The recipient for the 2004-2005 academic year was:

Dr. Jane Thibault, Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine

The recipient for the 2003-2004 academic year was:

Dr. Sharon Moore, Kent School of Social Work

The recipient for the 2002-2003 academic year was:

Professor Nefertiti Burton, Theater Arts Department

The recipients for the 2001-2002 academic years were:

Dr. David R. Anderson, English Department

First runner-up

Dr. Phyllis Metcalf Turner, School of Education & Human Development

The recipients for the 2000-2001 academic years were:

       Dr. Laura Cherry, Expressive Therapy

Professor Enid Trucios-Haynes, Brandeis School of Law

             Dr. Bibhti Sar, Kent School of Social Work

The recipients for the 1999-2000 academic years were:

Professor Cedric Powell, Brandeis School of Law

Dr . Daya Sandhu, School of Education & Human Development

The recipients for the 1998-1999 academic years were:

Dr. J. Blaine Hudson, Pan African Studies

and

The teaching team of

Dr. Julie Bunck, Dr. Dewey Clayton & Dr. Nathan Schwartz,

Political Science Department

The recipient for the 1997-1998 academic year was:

Prof. Joan D’Antoni, Division of Transitional Studies

The recipient for the 1996-1997 academic year was:

 Prof. Mary-Evelyn Martin, English Department

The Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award is sponsored by the UofL Diversity Programming committee of CODRE and the Vice Provost for Diversity and Equal Opportunity. The Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award was established in 1996 by the UofL Multicultural Center, its Advisory Board and founding director.

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