Howard honored for service to teaching
Columbus, IN – IUPUC Vice Chancellor and Dean Jay Howard, Ph.D., was recently honored with the P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching at the 2009 Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Retreat.
The PA Mack Award is given annually to an individual who has an extensive career of demonstrated excellence and distinguished service to teaching consistent with the goals and ideals of the Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (FACET). To qualify for the award, service must extend beyond an individual’s own disciplinary unit and/or campus.
“I can think of no one more worthy to receive an award recognizing one’s distinguished service to teaching,” said Charles P. Gallmeier, Ph.D. and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University Northwest. “From his teaching focused publications to his work with Future Faculty Teaching Fellows, Jay has purposively focused a large amount of his energy to thinking about teaching and translating this knowledge into real world applications.”
P.A. Mack, former IU Trustee and lifelong advocate for teaching excellence, was given the first award at the annual FACET retreat in May 1999.
“P.A. Mack has probably done more than any other single individual to ensure that Indiana University values teaching, research on teaching and learning, and service related to teaching,” Howard said. “It is a tremendous honor to receive an award named for P.A. and to join the list of distinguished individuals who have received the award previously. I am humbled and honored that my FACET colleagues judged me worthy of this recognition.”
FACET was founded in 1989 as an all-university initiative to advance teaching excellence across IU. FACET advocates pedagogical innovation, inspires growth and reflection, cultivates the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and fosters personal renewal in the commitment to student learning.
Howard joined IUPUC in 1992 as visiting assistant professor of sociology. He graduated with high distinction from Indiana University South Bend, receiving his bachelor’s degree in sociology and then earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from Notre Dame. In 2008, he received the Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education from the American Sociological Association Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology. Last year Howard was also recognized by the IU South Bend Alumni Association with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Science.