2022 Adjunct of the Year Award Nominees, Finalists, and Winner

2022 Adjunct of the Year Award Winner

Amanda Miller, Department of Marketing – “From the beginning, Amanda has committed to lifelong learning and to being an adaptive and thoughtful instructor for her students. Evidence of a student-centered approach is clear in Amanda’s approach to teaching. She also regularly implements her own course feedback form to students in each class that helps her adapt lessons, instructions, and/or activities to better serve her students.” -Kirk Smith, Michelle Mahoney

2022 Adjunct of the Year Award Finalists

Ashley Hanson, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering – “Ashley is a dedicated educator, brings excellent energy and ideas to the Design Curriculum Alignment Team, and utilizes feedback from her students to refine and improve her course. She’s a strong advocate of OER and also ensures she is available to any student who reaches out for assistance.” -Lynn Catlin

Sherry Iverson, Public Health and Population Science – “[We] are privileged to have someone of Sherry’s caliber teaching our students and helping them develop the skill sets they need to be successful. She is a remarkable instructor and mentor. She makes a positive difference in our student’s education and helps them feel they can be successful both personally and professionally.” -Lillian Smith, Jane Shimon, Caile Spear

<b\strong>Suzanne Sermon, History – “She encourages students to connect the past and the present, in order to demonstrate to them that history is relevant to their lives. [S]he models the best of historical practice: engaging with primary sources, analyzing them, providing evidence for one’s findings, and allowing for nuanced and different interpretations of that evidence.” –Lisa Brady

Helen Taggart, School of Nursing – “Dr. Taggart has demonstrated excellence in teaching on a continuum as evidenced by student evaluations and faculty feedback. Students consistently report how Dr. Taggart takes genuine interest in student academic success. Dr. Taggart takes great pride in her responsibilities as nurse educator.” –Marilyn O’Mallon

2022 Adjunct of the Year Award Nominees 

Jenny Allison, Department of Early and Special Education – “Throughout my experiences with Dr. Allison, I have found her to be an active listener and reflective practitioner. Dr. Allison is a team player and has shown flexibility in her role as an adjunct. With a passion for high quality work and learning, she has been a true asset to this department.” -Patricia Hampshire

Jacob Banholzer, Department of Art, Design, and Visual Studies – “He is a very approachable presence in the classroom for young students and creates an environment that allows them to ask the questions and suggest the ideas that form a creative basis for learning. [H]e has demonstrated exceptional ability as an instructor.” -Muffet Jones

Fulcanelli (Fuli) Chavez, Cyber Operations and Resilience Program – “To deliver the above program, we need cybersecurity professionals like Fuli who are on the frontlines every day. Fuli helps us achieve what we desire to bring to our classroom by developing courses and teaching them. As a cybersecurity professional, asynchronous online teaching modality is perfect for him.” -Sin Ming Loo

Rob Harryman, Mathematics – “Rob manages to connect with his students and encourages them to strive for success in the course. Student comments repeatedly refer to Rob’s great interaction with students, his diligence in answering questions outside of class, and his ability to help them understand the material.” -Margaret Kinzel

Peter Honebein, Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning – “[H]is philosophy is to create rational and emotional learning experiences where “failure is always a possibility”. While Dr. Honebein does not pre-design failure into learning experiences, when a student does experience failure in a challenging, real- world-type task, the student becomes a potential innovator, using self-correcting mechanisms to resolve problems.” -Yonnie Chyung

Conrad Kennington, Department of Computer Science – “Conrad Kennington is an outstanding teacher who loves the teaching aspect of his professional self. The courses he teaches are very relevant and impact the long-term success of students. His service to the students in mock interviews and career advice helps them get ready to enter the job market.” -Amit Jain

Janie Kiser, World Languages – “Janie makes every minute spent in the classroom an enjoyable learning experience for her students. Her lesson plans are carefully thought out, aligned to best practices, and engage students in interactive activities that espouse the hallmarks of evidence based learning. She empowers students to take ownership of their learning process.” -Kelly Aripe, Hortense Saget, Becca Sibrian, Carolina Viera

Leahann Romero, Criminal Justice – “Leahann took the time to find wonderful guest speakers that really helped put into perspective what the real work force is like. She brought in many different speakers with different careers. She herself currently works in the criminal justice field which I feel was productive to my learning.” -Student, end of course survey

Trina Stolp, Department of Community and Environmental Health – “Trina has played a particularly important role in our department as an adjunct instructor able to connect very effectively with students in an online teaching environment. Trina’s ability to efficiently and caringly deliver rigorous coursework online was particularly important during the disruptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” -Andy Hyer & Brian Young

Tracy Sutherland, Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing – “She is a diverse and distinguished artist: an excellent teacher and a vibrantly creative director of departmental productions; a successful professional actor, director, and screenwriter; an exceptional role model for our majors; and an exemplary representative of Boise State University.” -Richard Klautsch

Frank Veltri, Department of Marketing – “There is nothing more impressive than seeing someone combine the right attitude with high intensity drive and humility. This describes Frank. His positive disposition combined with his thirst for knowledge and drive to succeed maximizes his impact on student learning and impact.” -William R. Wynne