{"id":6662,"date":"2019-09-24T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accinsweb8366.wpenginepowered.com\/tled\/?page_id=6662"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:28:55","slug":"past-acc-teaching-excellence-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/teaching-excellence\/teaching-champions\/awards\/past-acc-teaching-excellence-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Past ACC Top Teaching Excellence Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACC Top Teaching Excellence Awards honor full-time and adjunct faculty who promote special learning opportunities, student interaction, and innovation. Other criteria are depth and breadth of knowledge in the subject area and a profound teaching philosophy. Recipients are presented with an award at the awards dinner and have an opportunity to be recognized at commencement. Full-time and adjunct faculty recipients each receive a $1,000 cash award. Nominations are made by faculty, staff and students. Award winners are recognized at an awards dinner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024-2025<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Lei Ji, faculty, economics<br \/>\nMarcia Hill, faculty, associate degree nursing<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023-2024<\/strong><br \/>\nLouisa Spaventa, adjunct faculty, Composition &amp; Literary Studies<br \/>\nMelissa Vetter, professor, dental hygiene<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022-2023<\/strong><br \/>\nLaura DiMeo, instructional associate, Radio-Television-Film<br \/>\nSima Sohrabi, professor, dental hygiene<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021-2022<\/strong><br \/>\nLydia Cdebaca-Cruz, professor, English<br \/>\nJulienne Lemond, professor, physics<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020-2021<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Sharon Butler, professor, General Studies &amp; Student Development<br \/>\nDr. Herbert Coleman, adjunct professor, psychology &amp; student development<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019-2020<\/strong><br \/>\nMolly McClurg, visual communication<br \/>\nTracy Partin, health &amp; kinesiology<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018-2019<\/strong><br \/>\nTodd Phillips, foreign language<br \/>\nGeorgia Xydes, history<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017-2018<\/strong><br \/>\nTim Strouse, professor, welding<br \/>\nCeleste Rios, adjunct professor, government<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016-2017<\/strong><br \/>\nRobert H. Blodgett, professor, geology<br \/>\nMario Aguilar, adjunct professor, paralegal, management and real estate<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015-2016<\/strong><br \/>\nFrank Cronin, professor, developmental writing<br \/>\nSean Perry, associate professor, photography<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014-2015<\/strong><br \/>\nPatty Collier, professor, Physical Therapist Assistant<br \/>\nRodney E. Rohde, adjunct professor, biology<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013-2014<\/strong><br \/>\nLaura Ju\u00e1rez de Ku, biology professor<br \/>\nTiff Holland, adjunct English professor<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012-2013<\/strong><br \/>\nSheila Ammons, accounting<br \/>\nJill Brockmann, business and technical communications<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011-2012<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid Lauderback, history<br \/>\nWesley Wilson, developmental math<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010-2011<\/strong><br \/>\nRobert Skiles, commercial music management<br \/>\nFelix Villarreal, biology<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009-2010<\/strong><br \/>\nMarc Prevost, foreign language<br \/>\nSuzanne Stege, human services<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008-2009<\/strong><br \/>\nCharles Beaman, biology; Lisa Gelineau, human services<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007-2008<\/strong><br \/>\nPatricia Dungan, developmental writing<br \/>\nChad Cryer, biology<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006-2007<\/strong><br \/>\nJulie Kleinhaus-Urrutia, foreign language<br \/>\nRenearl Bowie, criminal justice<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005-2006<\/strong><br \/>\nBryon Dungan, kinesiology<br \/>\nBernadeta Kaminska, foreign language<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004-2005<\/strong><br \/>\nIna Midkiff, marketing<br \/>\nSandra McCrary-Marshall, vocational nursing<br \/>\nSid Frost, computer science<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003-2004<\/strong><br \/>\nMary Corredor, ESOL<br \/>\nRoland Hayes, history<br \/>\nWilliam Leonard, geography<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002-2003<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Underwood, physics<br \/>\nOwen Dewing, computer information systems<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Richard Espinosa, allied health sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>2001<\/strong><br \/>\nStephen Ziser, biology<br \/>\nEvelyn Brown, psychology<br \/>\nScott Cain, music<br \/>\nCaprice Taniguchi, art<br \/>\nDarla Johnson, dance<\/p>\n<p><strong>2000<\/strong><br \/>\nPaul Schliesing, math<br \/>\nMark Leidig, kinesiology<br \/>\nBill Evans, land surveying<br \/>\nAnn Patterson, English<br \/>\nKathy Nabona, chemistry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC Top Teaching Excellence Awards honor full-time and adjunct faculty who promote special learning opportunities, student interaction, and innovation. Other criteria are depth and breadth of knowledge in the subject area and a profound teaching philosophy. Recipients are presented with an award at the awards dinner and have an opportunity to be recognized at commencement. 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