2016 FCCS Award Recipients: (left to right) Briar Craig, Marianne Legault, Shirley McDonald, Myron Campbell
As part of our ongoing efforts to recognize contributions and excellence in a variety of areas, FCCS has established four awards for the members of the FCCS community. These awards present FCCS with yet another opportunity to express gratitude for the contributions that advance our mission and the objectives of our strategic plan, and to shine the spotlight on those contributions.
This year’s award recipients are Briar Craig (Visual Arts), Shirley McDonald (English), Marianne Legault (French) and Myron Campbell (Visual Arts).
The year’s recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award is Briar Craig. Briar received this award on the basis of students support and teaching evaluations. Briar’s students note that he has a clear and concise teaching style; he offers fair and constructive feedback on assignments, taking the time to write a full and thoughtful critique for each student; and that he expands his teaching outside of the classroom by encouraging them to submit their work to exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally.
The 2016 Teaching Innovation Award recipients is Shirley McDonald for her work with Ramine Adl on a project called “Stopping Plagiarism Before It Starts,” (funded by an Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant). The focus of this project is to talk to students about the prevention of plagiarism rather than penalizing inadvertent cases of plagiarism that arise in papers and essays.
Marianne Legault is the recipient of the 2016 Service Award for her contributions to the Faculty over the 2015 academic year. Marianne has generously given her time and expertise in the service of FCCS over the past year, and has worked with various areas of the University, both at the Okanagan and Vancouver campus, to promote FCCS and to assist with recruitment initiatives.
The 2016 Community Engagement Award recipients is Myron Campbell. Over the past year Myron has spent a number of hours working with the community in a variety of ways, including working with the Community Service Learning Program on campus in which his students work with community organizations to produce promotional videos for their programs or initiatives. Myron is also the creator of Draw By Night, a collaborative drawing party that involves faculty, students, industry and the general public.
To learn more about the FCCS Awards and the nomination process, please visit www.ubc.ca/okanagan/fccs/awards.html