Morningside College has awarded its 2015 Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Awards to Susanne Lubbers, assistant professor of education; Dr. Jeremy Schnieder, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric; and Dr. J. Alden Stout, assistant professor of philosophy.

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Morningside College has awarded its 2015 Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Awards to Susanne Lubbers, assistant professor of education; Dr. Jeremy Schnieder, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric; and Dr. J. Alden Stout, assistant professor of philosophy.

Morningside President John Reynders presented the awards during the annual faculty banquet held Nov. 20 at the Sioux City Country Club. The recipients, selected from a field of applicants by a panel of three outside evaluators, will each receive a $10,000 honorarium and $2,000 to use for faculty development.

The Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Awards were established in 2003 by Morningside alumni Jim and Sharon Walker of Wayzata, Minn. 

Criteria for selection include teaching excellence, effective advising, scholarship and service to Morningside College. The awards are based upon the accomplishments and activities of a faculty member during the previous academic year.

Lubbers started teaching at Morningside in 2006. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Dakota, a master’s degree and from Southwest Minnesota State University, and is working toward her doctoral degree from Drake University.

Schnieder joined the Morningside faculty in 2010. He received his bachelor’s degree from Western State College of Colorado, a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska and a doctorate from Bowling Green State University.

Stout has been teaching at Morningside since 2011. He received a bachelor’s degree from Utah Valley State College and a doctorate from Purdue University.

Evaluators for the 2015 Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Awards were Dr. David McCullough Dobson, associate professor of geology, Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.; Dr. Kimberly Jarvis, associate professor of history, Doane College, Crete, Neb.; and Dr. Paula Schmidt, chair and associate professor of education, Clarke University, Dubuque, Iowa.