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Faculty Awarded for Excellence in the Classroom
“He has an innate ability to transfer his knowledge and ideas while inciting and demanding creativity…”
Two members of the SIPA faculty have been recognized by the School – and by their students – for their hard work and dedication in the classroom. Alan Brott (left) and Scott Barrett are winners of the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award.
The awards are offered in two categories – Professor Brott won for courses with enrollment of 45 students or more, for teaching “Accounting for International and Public Affairs;” Professor Barrett won for courses with fewer than 45 students, for teaching “Climate Change Policy.”
Students selected the award winners through an online ballot that featured six nominees in each category. The nominees were the top performers in the quantitative portion of course evaluations for the spring and fall 2010 semesters.
“Best teacher in finance I have ever met,” reads a comment from Professor Brott’s evaluations. “I always find accounting boring. But he made me find it exciting! He is very patient and good at explaining things to the students.”
“His knowledge of the material is inspirational,” remarked one of Professor Barrett’s students. “He has an innate ability to transfer his knowledge and ideas while inciting and demanding creativity from his students.”
Each winner receives a $1,000 prize.
SIPA’s faculty comprises more than 70 full-time professors and lecturers and more than 200 adjunct teachers. They include some of the world’s leading scholars on international relations, democratization, elections, demography, and social policy. A former mayor of New York City, a former member on the World Trade Organization appellate body, and the former director of the U.S. Census are among the senior practitioners who help shape the research agenda and curriculum of SIPA, one of the world's premier graduate schools of global public policy.
Alex Burnett, May 16, 2011