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SCSU honors professors
By Amanda Degen
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Four professors from SCSU were honored this spring for their hard work and dedication as they received honors including the Adviser Awards and the Paul T. Hiser Exemplary Publication Award.
The first award, provided by academic affairs, chose to honor three professors for their outstanding excellence in teaching as well as their involvement in the system. Nominations were taken last fall from students who have found evidence of exemplary action by a professor. Students then chose from a list of names and wrote an essay about the instructor whom they felt qualified most. Focus was based not only on teaching in the classroom, but also on activities promoting student involvement and awareness.
"You really get to recognize your teachers for working as hard as they do," said Chad Sivertson of academic affairs. "It's not just teaching in the classroom, but also activity on campus, by taking the time to talk with students."
The idea for the awards came from Anoka Ramsey Community College, who provides the Golden Chalk Award annually, but instead of focusing on just one adviser, academic affairs felt it more appropriate to expand to three recipients.
Tamarat Tademe received an award for his teachings dealing with xenophobia, his involvement in S.C.A.R. and the African Student Association and for being one of the founders of the Faculty and Staff of Color Caucus.
"Students have the power to heal," Tademe said. "I've been here at SCSU for 14 years. The students here are the best, and the most meaningful part of work here. Teaching is the most rewarding thing I see in my life. I have absolute faith in the capacity of the students I work with being the caring leaders of the 21st century to bring emancipation and hope to a world that sure needs it."
Jesse Benjamin, another Adviser Award honoree, is a co-adviser for the Arab Student Organization and works with the Organization for the Prevention of AIDS in Africa. He also works with war teach-ins and activism relating to U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
"I'm honored," Benjamin said, "because working with students is very important to me. But I'm also very humbled, because all the work I do is collective, and being singled out as an individual is an honor.
"I'm very passionate about teaching, not just abstract issues, but real issues in a real world that provides deeper meaning for students in their lives."
Kathleen Uradnik, political science professor and third recipient of this award was unavailable for comment.
Anthony Akubue was the recipient of one of the two Paul T. Hiser Exemplary Publication Awards presented by the International Technology Education Association. He received the award at the annual ITEA conference held in Nashville, Tenn. in March.
Akubue was nominated by Epsilon Phi Tau, and his article, titled "Gender Disparity in Third World Technological, Social and Economic Development," was selected out of several hundred submissions across the nation as the best.
The article deals with the benefits of technology and how they are distributed by gender in third world countries. According to his article, men acquire more benefits from technological progress than women do, and also have better access to that technology.
"Women lack access to credit, land and education, and women on corporate boards find (that achieving success) is very lonely at the top," Akubue said. "It's very important to point out that men and women do not benefit equally from this progress."
Akubue's article has been cited and quoted in Israel and Singapore for its importance involving third world countries.
"I'm very honored, and it makes me proud to be (singled out)," Akubue said. "I feel elated contributing to the visibility of SCSU in the state, nation and abroad."
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