Each two years, Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Nice Educating brings one of many nation’s greatest professors not already right here at Baylor to Waco for a semester, permitting BU college students to learn from his or her excellence within the classroom. First awarded in 1991, the award stays our nation’s largest nationwide award offered by a school or college for distinctive educating, and carries with it an distinctive financial reward for each the professor and his or her faculty.
The 2022 Cherry Award recipient is Dr. Hollylynne S. Lee, Distinguished Professor of Arithmetic and Statistics Schooling at North Carolina State College. The Cherry Award is simply the most recent in a string of honors for Lee; she obtained the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Educating in 2020, and was named a “professor of distinction” at NC State final fall. She has additionally been honored as a fellow by the American Statistical Affiliation and the Worldwide Society for Design and Growth in Schooling.
“I’m an educator by means of and thru,” says Lee. “The key to being an amazing trainer is loving the enjoyment of studying, on your college students and for your self. Studying new content material and growing new approaches that may have interaction and excite your college students retains a deal with growing college students’ pleasure in their very own studying. Educating is then a playful and joyful expertise…
“Having a national-level award that rewards college-level educating from any self-discipline says loudly that it’s not simply what we educate, however how we look after, educate and mentor faculty college students that basically issues… [The Cherry Award] speaks volumes concerning the dedication that Baylor College has for educating given the unimaginable effort that goes into the award course of by Baylor college and employees.”
Past the classroom, Lee has dedicated a lot of her time and vitality to creating open academic sources, providing free on-line programs for educators from world wide and sharing research-based multimedia supplies through Artistic Commons licensing.
“I wish to make math and statistics related to each particular person’s life and alter the experiences they’ve in colleges,” says Lee. “I wish to get significant curriculum supplies within the fingers of academics to allow them to change the sorts of experiences college students have with related knowledge of their school rooms.”
Because the Cherry Award recipient, Lee will spend a semester at Baylor educating and dealing with BU college students. She is anticipated to show in residence through the 2023 spring semester.
“Once I acquired the decision, I cried tears of pleasure and did an enormous ‘blissful dance’ with my household,” Lee says. “I’m actually wanting ahead to immersing myself within the expertise by means of participating with Baylor college students, getting to show new programs in a brand new setting and constructing lasting partnerships with Baylor college.”
Sic ’em, Dr. Lee!
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