Four Morningside College faculty members and one academic program have received the Dr. William C. Yockey Assessment Awards, which annually recognize outstanding efforts to improve student learning at Morningside.

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Four Morningside College faculty members and one academic program have received the Dr. William C. Yockey Assessment Awards, which annually recognize outstanding efforts to improve student learning at Morningside.

Faculty members who received awards for courses they teach were Dr. Tony Kern, associate professor of biology, and Dr. Alden Stout, assistant professor of philosophy, for their genetics course; Dr. Marilyn Eastman, assistant professor of business administration, for her course Principles of Marketing; and Dr. Lindsey Dutler, assistant professor of nursing, for her graduate nursing course Quality, Safety and Informatics.

The Morningside’s undergraduate education program received a department/program award in recognition of the department’s efforts to assess and improve student learning. Education program faculty members during the 2015-2016 academic year included LuAnn Haase, associate professor and department chair; Scott Arnett, professor; Lorna Leavitt, associate professor; Susanne Lubbers, assistant professor; Shelley Molland, instructor; Celia Stevenson, assistant professor; Tangela Sylvester, assistant professor; and Cathy Wilt, associate professor.

A $2,500 cash prize is included with each award, which covered assessment of student learning conducted at Morningside during the 2015-2016 academic year.  Dr. Joel Frederickson, associate dean of institutional assessment and accreditation and chair of the psychology department at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., served as outside evaluator for the awards.

The family of the late Dr. William C. Yockey, a 1949 Morningside graduate and a chemistry professor at the college for more than 30 years, established the awards in his name.