{"id":6664,"date":"2019-09-24T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accinsweb8366.wpenginepowered.com\/tled\/?page_id=6664"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:28:24","slug":"past-piper-nominees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/teaching-excellence\/teaching-champions\/awards\/past-piper-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Piper Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation is a prestigious statewide award honoring 10 professors each academic year for their dedication to the teaching profession and for their outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievement. Honorees are awarded certificates naming them \u201cPiper Professors,\u201d together with cash honoraria of $5,000 for each professor selected.<\/p>\n

The purpose of these awards is to recognize excellence in teaching rather than research, publication, administration, or other related activities, although these criteria are also considered by the selection committee. This award is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed upon faculty in the state of Texas. Only 10 professors receive this award each year among a pool of approximately 10,000 educators. The Piper Professor Nominee Award nomination deadline is Nov. 15, 2019.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> Department chairs submit nominations for the Piper Professor Award.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

2025<\/h3>\n

Felix Villarreal, Faculty, Biology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2024<\/h3>\n

Dr. Sadaf Sajjad, Provost Allyship Fellow, Psychology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2023<\/h3>\n

Cam Addis, Professor, History<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2022<\/h3>\n

Dr. Richard Espinosa, Department Chair and Professor, Allied Health Sciences, Pre-Health Sciences, and Pre-Med<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2021<\/h3>\n

Curtis Eckerman, Professor, Biology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2020<\/h3>\n

John Nation, Nursing<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2019<\/h3>\n

Amardeep Kahlon, Computer Information Tech<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2018<\/h3>\n

Shirin Khosropour, Professor, Psychology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2017<\/h3>\n

Stacey Thompson Stover, Professor, English, Developmental Writing<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2016<\/h3>\n

David M. Lauderback, Professor, History<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2015<\/h3>\n

Missi Patterson, Professor, Psychology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2014<\/h3>\n

Gale Spear, Professor, Child Care and Development<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2013<\/h3>\n

Jennifer Beck, Professor, Psychology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2012<\/h3>\n

Tobin Quereau, Professor, Human Development<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2010<\/h3>\n

Elizabeth Pintar, Professor, Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2009<\/h3>\n

Clint Davis, Professor, Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n

2008<\/h3>\n

Amardeep Kahlon, Professor, Computer Information Systems<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation is a prestigious statewide award honoring 10 professors each academic year for their dedication to the teaching profession and for their outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievement. Honorees are awarded certificates naming them \u201cPiper Professors,\u201d together with cash honoraria of $5,000 for each professor selected. The purpose of these awards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":404,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":false,"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PabSSD-1Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6664\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/tled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}