Past ACC Teaching Excellence Winners
ACC Teaching Excellence Awards honor full-time and adjunct faculty who promote special learning opportunities, student interaction, and innovation. Other criteria are depth/breadth of knowledge in 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 $1000 cash award. Nominations are made by faculty, staff and students. Award winners are recognized at an awards dinner.
2023-2024
Louisa Spaventa, Adjunct Faculty, Composition & Literary Studies
Melissa Vetter, Professor, Dental Hygiene
2022-2023
Laura DiMeo, Instructional Associate, Radio-Television-Film
Sima Sohrabi, Professor, Dental Hygiene
2021-2022
Lydia Cdebaca-Cruz, Professor, English
Julienne Lemond, Professor, Physics
2020-2021
Dr. Sharon Butler
Professor, General Studies & Student Development
Dr. Herbert Coleman
Adjunct Professor, Psychology & Student Development
2019-2020
Molly McClurg, Visual Communication
Tracy Partin, Health & Kinesiology
2018-2019
Todd Phillips, Foreign Language
Georgia Xydes, History
2017-2018
Tim Strouse, Professor, Welding
Celeste Rios, Adjunct, Professor, Government
2016-2017
Robert H. Blodgett, Professor, Geology
Mario Aguilar, Adjunct, Professor, Paralegal, Management, Real Estate
2015-2016
Frank Cronin, Professor, Developmental Writing
Sean Perry, Associate Professor, Photography
2014-2015
Patty Collier, Professor, Physical Therapy Assistant
Rodney E. Rohde, Adjunct Professor, Biology
2013-2014
Laura Juárez de Ku, Biology Professor
Tiff Holland, Adjunct English Professor
2012-2013
Sheila Ammons, Accounting
Jill Brockmann, Business and Technical Communications
2011-2012
David Lauderback, History
Wesley Wilson, Developmental Math
2010-2011
Robert Skiles, Commercial Music Management
Felix Villarreal, Biology
2009-2010
Marc Prevost, Foreign Language
Suzanne Stege, Human Services
2008-2009
Charles Beaman, Biology;
Lisa Gelineau, Human Services
2007-2008
Patricia Dungan, Developmental Writing
Chad Cryer, Biology
2006-2007
Julie Kleinhaus-Urrutia, Foreign Language
Renearl Bowie, Criminal Justice
2005-2006
Bryon Dungan, Kinesiology
Bernadeta Kaminska, Foreign Language
2004-2005
Ina Midkiff, Marketing
Sandra McCrary-Marshall, Vocational Nursing
Sid Frost, Computer Science
2003-2004
Mary Corredor, ESOL
Roland Hayes, History
William Leonard, Geography
2002-2003
John Underwood, Physics
Owen Dewing, Computer Information Systems
2002
Dr. Richard Espinosa, Allied Health Sciences
2001
Stephen Ziser, Biology
Evelyn Brown, Psychology
Scott Cain, Music
Caprice Taniguchi, Art
Darla Johnson, Dance
2000
Paul Schliesing, Math
Mark Leidig, Kinesiology
Bill Evans, Land Surveying
Ann Patterson, English
Kathy Nabona, Chemistry