2019 Goergen Teaching Award Winners

The Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching was established in 1997 by University trustee and Board Chair Emeritus Robert Goergen ’60 and his wife, Pamela. The award recognizes distinctive teaching accomplishments of faculty in Arts, Sciences & Engineering.

The recipients of the 2019 award are:

Matthew BaileyShea, an associate professor in the College’s Department of Music and the Eastman School of Music
Ryan Prendergast, an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Katherine Schaefer, an associate professor of instruction in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program

“Out of a particularly strong crop of nominations, we selected three excellent educators: congratulations to professors BaileyShea, Prendergast, and Schaefer,” says Jeffrey Runner, dean of the College. “I am so grateful to Bob and Pam Goergen for enabling us to recognize this critical aspect of our faculty’s role in the university. So many students have been positively impacted by their hard work and ingenious ways of making the material they’re teaching come alive.”

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