{"id":1069404,"date":"2024-04-16T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/news\/?p=1069404"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:30:38","slug":"quintana-named-adjunct-faculty-member-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/16\/quintana-named-adjunct-faculty-member-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Quintana named Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-image wp-image--no-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1069461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2024\/04\/Ben-Q.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo portrait of Quintana\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/figure><p>Ben Quintana, an adjunct faculty member in the College of Business and Economics, received the Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year Award from Provost John Buckwalter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To deliver our academic programs at Boise State, we rely on faculty in both tenure and non-tenure track roles,&#8221; Buckwalter said. &#8220;Adjunct faculty play a critical role and are essential to the delivery of high-quality academic programming, and help us achieve our first goal of the strategic plan &#8211; student access and student success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The award honors adjunct faculty members who are demonstrating excellence in teaching, particularly by using evidence-based instructional practices and student engagement techniques to support student success, as well as by their engagement with faculty development opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Student and peer testimonials recognized Quintana for the significant impact he&#8217;s made in the Professional, Online and JD\/MBA programs in the College of Business and Economics, and his students speak highly of the care he devotes to his classes both as an educator and as a mentor for rising business professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Quintana, an adjunct faculty member in the College of Business and Economics, received the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/609d2fad-0154-49d5-aa13-02b8b59d44d3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277680,19],"tags":[280183,325132],"class_list":["post-1069404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-innovation-and-leadership","category-faculty-staff-in-action","tag-college-of-business-and-economics","tag-employee-appreciation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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