Faculty Service Learning Awards
The Edward Zlotkowski Faculty Service Learning Award
The Edward Zlotkowski Faculty Award for Service-Learning annually recognizes a faculty member for innovations in engaged scholarship that integrate service into the curriculum 和 for efforts to institutionalize service-learning in his/her discipline, 学校, college 还有大学.
Deadline for Nominations for the prestigious Edward Zlotkowski Faculty Service Learning Award for the 2022 - 2023 academic year is, 周一, 3月20日, 2023. The award annually recognizes a faculty member for innovations in engaged scholarship that integrate service into the curriculum 和 for efforts to institutionalize service-learning in his/her discipline, 学校, college 还有大学.
Should you have questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact Dr. Ricardo Gonzalez, Director-Ettling Center for Civic Leadership & Sustainability at (210) 832-3208 or rigonza4@uiwtx.edu.
Read about previous recipients of the award below. A person may only receive the award once.
Edward Zlotkowski is a nationally recognized scholar 和 author in the field of engaged scholarship 和 service-learning. 阅读Dr. Zlotkowski 和 his 21-volume Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines. His work was a positive influence at the University of the Incarnate Word starting in the late 1990s 和 helped establish faculty practice here. UIW faculty realized that service had been a part of student learning since our beginnings with Incarnate Word Sisters teaching nursing 和 that more formal structures of service learning were needed.
Examples of engaged scholarship, 社区服务, 和 service-learning embedded in our Incarnate Word history can be seen in 这个概述. Recent examples 和 stories can be seen in the booklets 和 postings for the annual Service Learning 和 Engaged Scholarship Showcase which began in 2017.
In 1996, Ernest Boyer wrote about “The Scholarship of Engagement” in the Journal of Public Service 和 Outreach: “…[T]he academy must become a more vigorous partner in the search for answers to our most pressing social, 公民, 经济, 和 moral problems, 和 must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I call the scholarship of engagement.”
As a way of encouraging service 和 scholarship about it, the Edward Zlotkowski Faculty Award for Service-Learning was established in 2002. The founding of the Ettling Center for Civic Engagement in 2013 gave firmer support for faculty to use service-learning 和 engage scholarship. 请参阅 教师资源 page for a broad overview 和 especially consider Service 和 Service Learning Guidelines 和 教师资源 for Assistance 和 Scholarship.
One may nominate any faculty member or one's self. The criteria: A faculty person who gives examples of “innovations in engaged scholarship that integrates service into the curriculum 和 for efforts to institutionalize service-learning in his/her discipline, 学校或大学, 还有大学.” Please include about 500 words about this person's contributions.
Past Recipients of the Edward Zlotkowski Service Learning Award
The 2021 award recipient was Dr. David Armstrong, associate professor of English. In the difficult p和emic year in which the Nobel Peace Prize was given to the World Food Organization, Dr. Armstrong was recognized for his teaching in which students develop empathy for the hungry through the literature they read. Then they help collect food.
The 2020 award recipient was Dr. Lopita Nath, professor of History. Her teaching 和 research interests include issues of migration, 位移, human rights 和 refugees. Her students learn to grapple with these complex issues through experiences of growing relationships with refugee families. Weekly her students are with “their refugee family” growing in underst和ing 和 solidarity while being guided in academic knowledge.
The 2019 award recipient was Dr. Yvonne Davila, assistant professor in the Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing 和 Health Professions. She has been instrumental in spearheading monthly interprofessional health screening events at Haven for Hope. She has helped to develop three service learning courses to promote transformational learning experiences in the BSN student. This integrates service with class to teach 公民 responsibility 和 strengthen communities. These have helped students analyze health disparities 和 ways they can help vulnerable populations. All nursing students participate in at least six hours of clinical rotations at Haven for Hope Courtyard. Students reflect on how their clinical experiences relate to the tenets of social justice.
The 2018 award recipient was Dr. Tracie Edmond, associate professor of Accounting at the H-E-B School of Business 和 Administration. She is known for her innovations combining service 和 accounting education incorporating real-world experiences into the classroom. One of the most successful innovative tools developed by 和 used in Dr. Edmond’s classes is a tri-sector collaboration mode including the non-profit sector, the for-profit sector, 和 the education sector.
The 2017 award recipient was Dr. Russell Coates, clinical assistant professor at the Rosenberg School of Optometry. 五年来，奥巴马博士一直在努力. Coates has coordinated service-learning trips with faculty 和 students to disadvantaged areas. 在美国.S., Guatemala, 和 Peru, hundreds of people have benefited from eye exams 和 care. Students have had careful preparation before 和 reflection about these experiences afterwards to integrate knowledge in optometry 和 to be caring 和 enlightened global citizens.
The award was revived in 2016 和 the award winner is not only an example of givingservice, but also of continuing what seems to be the longest continuously going service project going back to the 1980’s. Theresa Tiggeman, CPA, MBA, teaches Accounting. She coordinates a service learning project the UIW Volunteers in Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. Students process a few hundred tax returns for persons with low income 和 the elderly of the community annually at no charge.
In 2004, the award went to Margaret Mitchell, professor of Theatre Arts, has not only designed costumes for the theatre 和 taught students to do so, but she has also led students sewing dolls for disadvantaged children. She teaches compassion with costuming!
In 2003, the award was first presented. 看到博士. Sara Kolb (at the top), Nursing Professor Emerita, 和 other leaders at the Ministerio de Salud project, providing primary 和 secondary care health services to the underserved elderly using a Parish Nurse Model. She was involved in this center in southwest San Antonio which provided all nursing students opportunities for at least two service-learning projects before they graduated.
