Award-Winning Teaching Style

Award-Winning Teaching Style

Sarah (Jodi) Shaefer has received the 2010 Baccalaureate Excellence in Teaching Award for her teaching on undergraduate nursing research and pediatrics. “Dr. Shaefer projects her passion for research, and it is contagious,” wrote one of her student nominators. “She is a great example of the type of instructor students appreciate and she is an asset to the faculty here!”

Mary Terhaar is the 2010 winner of the Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award. Her specialty is interdisciplinary collaboration in the management of health outcomes for mothers and their infants and young children. A student nominator said that “Everywhere you go on campus…students know and respect Dr. Terhaar and value her as a pillar of strength, creativity, and vision for nursing students.”