ACC Annual Awards Celebration

The Leadership Awards

ACC celebrates outstanding Staff who demonstrate strong leadership and who have gone above and beyond the duties listed in their job description for the ACC community.

Chancellor’s Excellence Award Winners

Mirosalva Zuniga
Director, Student Affairs Communication

Teaching Excellence Awards

The ACC Teaching Excellence Awards honor one full-time and one adjunct faculty member who promotes special learning opportunities, student interaction, depth/breadth of knowledge in a subject area, and innovation. Nominations are made by students, faculty and staff, and the honorees. Recipients are selected by a committee and presented with an award and a $1000 cash prize.

Top Teaching Excellence Award & League Excellence Award

NISOD Teaching Excellence

DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty

The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty honors nursing faculty who inspire their students to remember that nursing is more than tasks and technology. The DAISY nurse faculty is one who ensures that both the art and science of nursing are brought to every patient experience. This award celebrates nursing faculty for their inspirational influence on the nurses of today and tomorrow.

Alison Thompson
Faculty, Nursing

eFaculty of the Year Award

This award recognizes an outstanding ACC Faculty member who has creatively utilized appropriate Internet-based technologies to teach online and/or hybrid courses at ACC. The recipient must have designed and taught one or more online or hybrid courses with an imaginative approach, well-designed course materials, instructional strategies, and a demonstrated rapport with the course participants.

• • Laura Trellue, Faculty INRW, CLS, Student Development

The Piper Professor Nominee Award

The Piper Professor Nominee Award is a statewide award that recognizes outstanding full-time faculty in the teaching profession. Higher education institutions must be invited to submit a nominee and only ten professors are selected to receive this award each year. Awards of $5,000 are given to those selected for their superior teaching at the college level.

Felix Villarreal
Faculty, Biology

NISOD Excellence Awards

The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) has emphasized the importance of teaching and leadership excellence in institutions of higher education. Recipients of the NISOD Excellence Award are recognized at the annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, and this award honors the world’s best in higher education. Please join us in congratulating the following ACC faculty and staff members receiving the NISOD Excellence Award.

Front Row (left to right): Ray Sandoval, Emi Schuster, Savannah Rugg, Chancellor Russell Lowery-Hart
Middle Row: Jodi Oates, Martha Soto, Alison Thompson, Christian Raymond
Back Row: Sarah Lisenbe, Dawson Williams, Doralena Yanes, Michelle Iskra
Not pictured: Laura Trellue

The League Excellence Awards

In recognition of the long tradition of excellence in community college teaching and leadership, the League Excellence Awards (formerly Roueche Award) celebrate outstanding contributions and leadership by community college faculty and staff. Selected by a committee, recipients will be recognized at an awards celebration at ACC and have the opportunity to attend the League for Innovations Conference in the spring.

Front Row (left to right): Marcia Hill, Darlene Elder, Felix Villarreal, Bernadette Hinterlong, Chancellor Russell Lowery-Hart
Middle Row: Stefanie Vermillion, Dr. Ursula A. Parker, Stephanie Long, Misty Campbell, Dr. David Fonken
Back Row: Mirosalva Zuñiga, Dr. Amber Kreischer, Lei Ji, Kyle Nutter, Dr. Laura Marmolejo, Dr. Jonathan Tyner