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Dean Coatsworth Recognizes "Top Five" 2008-2009 Faculty with Teaching Awards
SIPA recognizes excellence in teaching through two annual awards: the Distinguished Teaching Award and, in a new award established this fall by Dean John H. Coatsworth, the Top Five teachers from each semester the previous year.
Dean Coatsworth announced the awards for the Top Five teachers in fall 2008 and spring 2009 at the annual adjunct faculty dinner. The awards are based on rankings on two questions in the quantitative portion of the SIPA course evaluation, students’ overall evaluation of the course and their overall evaluation of the instructor. The responses are totaled and ranked, and the Top Five” teachers each semester receive the award.
For fall 2008, the Top Five faculty members, their programs and courses are:
- Louise Schneider-Moretto, MIA: “Micro-Finance and Capital Markets”
- Richard Goldberg, MIA: “The Future of Global Financial Institutions”
- Michael Doyle, MIA: “Topics in International Ethics”
- Francisco Rivera-Batiz, PEPM: “Development Economics”
- Arthur Dong, Executive MPA: “Accounting for Public Affairs”
For spring 2009, the top five faculty members, their programs and courses are:
- Francesco Mancini, MIA: “Conflict Assessment”
- Roy Nersesian, MIA: “Marine Energy Transportation Technology, Economics and Politics”
- Mahmood Mamdani, MIA: “Cold War and the Third World”
- Gary Sick, MIA: “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf”
- John Hirsch, MIA: “Peacemaking and Peacekeeping”
“Providing a student-centered education is a key part of SIPA’s mission, and excellence in teaching is perhaps the most important element of student-centered education,” said Dean Coatsworth. “The Top Five teaching awards are a manifestation of our commitment to promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching.”
Andrea Bubula and Geoffrey Jehle each received SIPA’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2009. The awards are offered in two categories – Professor Bubula won for courses with enrollment of 45 students or more; Professor Jehle for courses with fewer than 45 students. Each was selected by students through an online ballot that featured ten nominees in each category. The nominees were the top performers in the quantitative portion of course evaluations for the spring and fall 2008 semesters. Read more about the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award winners here.
SIPA’s faculty comprises 70 full-time teachers, and more than 100 part-time teachers, scholars and practitioners who have distinguished themselves in research and leadership in the policy world. 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.
09/22/2009