Spring Break
Committee presents $170,210 to professors
Student evaluations lead to teachers being awarded stipends for excellence
By: Melissa Appel
Issue date: 3/10/09 Section: News
Student Led Awards of Teacher Excellence (SLATE) awarded $170,210 to 45 Texas A&M professors and lecturers Friday at a special reception.
Members of the A&M teaching staff were invited last fall to apply to the program, which awards a monetary stipend to distinguished staff based on student input. Students in the applicants' classes filled out surveys at the end of the fall semester. The surveys were evaluated by the students of the SLATE committee over the winter break.
This is the first semester A&M has used the SLATE program. Texas A&M System Chancellor Michael McKinney created the idea for the program as a way to ask students to answer the question, "Would you recommend this professor to other students?" Money was allocated from the A&M system for the program, and A&M students began the task of forming a method to award the money.
The SLATE committee considered the collected surveys and information regarding each professor's teaching style when making their selection.
"There are many amazing teachers on this campus, and the number of awards given to deserving teachers in this cycle is an attest to that fact," said Kolin Loveless, academic affairs chairman of Student Senate and a senior mechanical engineering major.
Honored teachers
To see a full list of professors honored at SLATE, go online to
thebatt.com.
Members of the A&M teaching staff were invited last fall to apply to the program, which awards a monetary stipend to distinguished staff based on student input. Students in the applicants' classes filled out surveys at the end of the fall semester. The surveys were evaluated by the students of the SLATE committee over the winter break.
This is the first semester A&M has used the SLATE program. Texas A&M System Chancellor Michael McKinney created the idea for the program as a way to ask students to answer the question, "Would you recommend this professor to other students?" Money was allocated from the A&M system for the program, and A&M students began the task of forming a method to award the money.
The SLATE committee considered the collected surveys and information regarding each professor's teaching style when making their selection.
"There are many amazing teachers on this campus, and the number of awards given to deserving teachers in this cycle is an attest to that fact," said Kolin Loveless, academic affairs chairman of Student Senate and a senior mechanical engineering major.
Honored teachers
To see a full list of professors honored at SLATE, go online to
thebatt.com.
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