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Faculty Senate Awards 2020-2021

SENATE RECOGNIZES OUTSTANDING PARTNERS 2020

Throughout the Spring 2021 semester, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Faculty Senate awarded four outstanding community and business partners in the Mobile area who enhance the university’s mission of teaching, research and service.

• Lori Wichman, DNP, Manager of Clinical Education at Baptist Healthcare in Pensacola, FL, received the Outstanding Research Partner Award for her support of Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s research mission.  She has helped obtain critical data for Â鶹´«Ã½ Faculty members pertaining to burnout during COVID and organizational work-life factors.  Dr. David Turnipseed nominated Wichman for the award. 

• Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS) and Superintendent, Chresal Threadgill received the Outstanding Teaching Partner Award.  MCPSS and Â鶹´«Ã½ have partnered together through a Federal grant to create PASSAGE Â鶹´«Ã½, a transition initiative to help students with intellectual disabilities, their parents, and their teachers learn about new post-secondary education opportunities at Â鶹´«Ã½. Dr. Delwar Hossain nominated MCPSS for the award. 

• The City of Mobile and Mayor Sandy Stimpson received the Outstanding Community Partner Award.  Mayor Stimpson’s leadership in conjunction with Â鶹´«Ã½ Health to manage pandemic issues and mitigate COVID impact on our community was integral in keeping the citizens of Mobile healthy during the pandemic.  Dr. Robert Ross nominated Mayor Stimpson for the award.

• FeAunté Preyear, Title IX Investigator at Â鶹´«Ã½, received the Semoon and Youngshin Chang Award for Humanitarian Services.  Ms. Preyear has served victims of sexual assault on the campus of Â鶹´«Ã½ for years and until recently her work was done on a purely voluntary basis.  She has served as chair of the Violence Prevention Alliance and has helped implement Girls’ Night Out and Bro Code here at Â鶹´«Ã½. Her work as a victim advocate is emotionally difficulty work, but it is critically important for the recovery and well-being of sexual assault victims.  Dr. Sarah Koon-Magnin nominated Preyear for this award.  

â–¼   Research Community Partner

Left to Right: Dr. David Turnipseed, Â鶹´«Ã½ Mitchell College of Business; Dr. Lori Wichman, Baptist Health Care of Pensacola; Dr. Elizabeth VandeWaa, Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Nursing. The Research Community Parner Award is for providing direct support to the research mission of Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty through financial, in-kind, personnel, expertise, office space, consulting, or other means.

â–¼   Education Community Partner

Left to Right: Dr. John Cleary, Â鶹´«Ã½ Faculty Senate President; Chresal Threadgill, Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS) Superintendent; Dr. Delwar Hossain, Â鶹´«Ã½ Department of Communication. The Education Community Partner Award is for providing direct support to the teaching mission of Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty, broadly defined, by providing a setting and/or skilled supervision for Â鶹´«Ã½ students. This partner enhances the educational mission of the Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty by providing internship/externship/field placement to Â鶹´«Ã½ students.

 

â–¼   Outstanding Community Partner Award

 

Left to Right: James Barber, Chief of Staff City of Mobile; Dr. Robert Ross, Â鶹´«Ã½ Health; Sandy Simpson, Mayor City of Mobile; Beth Rugan Shepard, Â鶹´«Ã½ Faculty Senate Vice President; and Dr. Jason Rinehart, Â鶹´«Ã½ Department of Music. The Outstanding Community Partner Award is for an organization/agency that works with Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty to address needs of the greater Mobile community through collaborative research and/or service delivery.

 

â–¼   Semoon & Youngshin Chang Award

Left to Right: Dr. Jason Rinehart, Â鶹´«Ã½ Department of Music and FeAunté Preyear, Â鶹´«Ã½ Title IX Investigator.