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CLA's Richard K. Simon Faculty Awards Announced

The College of Liberal Arts recognized the winners of the Richard K. Simon Faculty Awards during Fall Conference Week. The awards were originally announced at the college's annual end-of-the-year reception, held on June 2, 2011 at the Dallidet Adobe in San Luis Obispo.

Categories include Outstanding Teaching, Outstanding Scholarship or Creative Activity, and Outstanding Service.

Outstanding Teaching Award

The Outstanding Teaching Award was given to Philosophy Department Professor Stephen Lloyd-Moffett. 

Stephen Lloyd-Moffett imageLloyd-Moffet was recognized for his dedication to his students in and out of the classroom.  As stated in his nomination letter,  "If Professor Lloyd-Moffett’s performance as a teacher and scholar may be described, as they have been by peer-review committees, department chairs and deans, as 'simply superb,' 'simply and utterly outstanding,' and 'off the charts,' his engagement in what is normally called “service” renders inadequate any available catalog of positive adjectives.”

Student testimonials also praise Lloyd-Moffett for his enthusiastic and engaging teaching style.  Some of the quotes included in his nomination stated, “Dr. Lloyd-Moffett is the type of professor that one hopes for when they go to college.” "This course is the reason I am in college.  It represents what education should be.” and “By far the best professor I have ever had.” 

Lloyd-Moffett is currently the faculty advisor for the student club Cal Poly Theisms - a RELS Club.  

Outstanding Scholarship or Creative Activity Award

The award for Outstanding Scholarship or Creative Activity was presented to English professor and Doug Keesey. 

Doug Keesey imageKeesey, a professor in the English Department since 1988, was recognized not only for his extensive list of published books, nine since 1993, on film genres and directors, but for his accomplished resume of published articles and reviews.  It was noted in his nomination letter that  "... he is surely the most accomplished scholar in the English Department and easily among the most accomplished in the College of Liberal Arts, if not the University” and “Doug epitomizes the teacher-scholar model, where rich and exciting scholarship informs new and innovative pedagogy.” 

 

Outstanding Service Award

The 2010-2011 Outstanding Service Award was given to two very deserving professors in the college: Gary Laver, department chair and professor in the Psychology & Child Development Department, and Jane Lehr, professor in the Ethnic Studies Department.

Gary Laver imageLaver was recognized for his service as a member of the Cal Poly Academic Senate since 1992, his work on the current Academic Senate General Education Task Force, as a reader for the blind students at the Disability Resource Center, and as an instructor and consultant in the Sexually Violent Predator Program for the California Department of Mental Health.  Laver was lauded for "...an extensive history of strong service to the CLA, the university, and the community more broadly, dating back to the early 1990’s.  Many of his choices of service work since he has been at Cal Poly reflect a deep commitment to improving the lives of others…”

 

Jane LehrLehr, a faculty member in Ethnic Studies since 2008, was recognized for her commitment to various university organizations including, but not limited to ASI, EMPOWER Cal Poly, MeCHA, Student Community Services, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Women’s Programs & Services, University Writing Learning Objectives Assessment, STEM Think Tank, and the Faculty Resource Group for the Women’s Leadership Council. In addition, Lehr worked with the Community Based Learning project doing collaborative work between CBL and the Multicultural Center, Pride Center and Gender Equity Center.  Lehr's nominator states, “During her four years at Cal Poly she has participated in numerous campus organizations and University committees, most having to do with diversity and equity.” 

Past CLA Richard K. Simon Faculty Award winners

 

 

 

 

 

 
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