Western Nevada Colleges Adjunct Faculty Association has honored four instructors for fall 2021.
Ana Casareto, Kevin Earl, Cindy Kuehn and Peter Mires have been selected for their dedication to teaching and their students.
In reaching our decision, we took into account a number of different factors, including teaching ability, commitment to student success and retention, willingness to innovate, such as.taking part in learning and training opportunities, and service to the college through participation on committees, mentoring, and other work, said Lane Simonian, part of a selection committee that also included Deborah Fruechtenicht and Denise Frohlich.
Simonian said that this is the first time that adjunct faculty members have been honored for their teaching excellence with a monetary award since 2010.
We are grateful that President Dr. Vincent Solis and Provost and Senior Vice President Dr. Kyle Dalpe have allocated money for this much-deserved recognition of adjunct instructors, Simonian said.
WNCAFA plans to recognize four more adjunct faculty members in the spring.
It is not too early for adjunct faculty to begin thinking of whom they would like to nominate then, Simonian said. I am proud to have known many of our nominees and have admired their contributions to student success and enrichment. Best wishes to them and to all our adjunct faculty.