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Genevieve Shaker Earns National Honors

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Dr. Genevieve Shaker, Associate Director of Development and External Affairs of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, is the 2009 recipient of national Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award. This is a prestigious annual competition of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. Shaker completed the dissertation as a HESA student in fall 2008. She will receive the award in November at the 2009 ASHE conference in Vancouver. The dissertation is entitled: Off the Track: The Full-time Nontenure-track Faculty Experience in English.

Additionally, she and colleagues Dr. Nancy Chism (School of Education) and Dr. Megan Palmer (School of Education), are being recognized for their rigorous research and its impact on the field of faculty development with the Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development. Their work, titled, "Understanding and Supporting Full-time Nontenure-track (FTNT) Faculty: A Welcome Change," was one of only three chosen by the Menges Award Selection Committee and will support their presentation at the 34th annual Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) conference, "Welcoming Change: Generations and Regeneration," held in Houston, Texas, October 28 - November l, 2009. This award was established in 2000 by POD in recognition of Bob Menges, an honored scholar, whose long years of work and contributions to teaching and learning and faculty development in higher education can be characterized by his spirit of caring consultation, active participation, and rigorous research.

Published on: October 12, 2009