OSU Ecampus awards and appointments
Here is a showcase of OSU faculty and Ecampus staff, students and courses that have won awards, or OSU faculty and Ecampus staff who have been appointed or elected to prestigious positions outside of the university.
Impact, innovation, support lead to accolades for profs and advisers
December 2011 - A pair of Oregon State faculty members who teach Ecampus courses and the OSU fisheries and wildlife advising team capped the year in notable fashion, each winning a Vice Provost Award for Excellence from the division of Outreach and Engagement.
Mark Edwards, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, earned the Strategic Impact Award for achieving meaningful outcomes relevant to the signature areas of the OSU Strategic Plan. Edwards was also instrumental in helping Ecampus launch an online undergraduate degree in sociology in 2011.
Paul Ries won the Innovation in Online Credit-based Teaching Award for his work as an affiliate faculty member in the College of Forestry. Ries employs an interactive approach to his forestry and horticulture courses that enhances student access to enrichment by prompting them to think critically about the local and global environment.
The fisheries and wildlife distance education advising team was honored with the Program Support Award. The advisers group furthered OSU's mission of outreach and engagement by going above and beyond their job expectations while serving a large Ecampus student population.
Ecampus students earn OSU's prestigious Waldo-Cummings Award
Dirk Gard is a magna cum laude graduate of OSU, and he earned the Waldo-Cummings Award for his academic prowess.
May 2011 - OSU Extended Campus (Ecampus) students Dirk Gard and Carmon Thomas joined elite company as they were honored with the university's Waldo-Cummings Award, given annually to 10 undergraduates in recognition of academic excellence.
Gard is a wind farm manager from Casper, Wyo., who graduated magna cum laude in June 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources. (Read a complete profile of Gard online.)
Thomas, a single mother of three living in Philomath, Ore., is a human development and family sciences major. She plans to pursue a career as a licensed social worker after graduation, and she currently works as a volunteer for the Benton County School District's Special Education Advisory Board, which she helped create in 2005.
Fellow Ecampus students Christopher Condry (Kokomo, Ind., B.S. Political Science), Lynda Green (Florence, Ore., B.A. Liberal Studies) and Dazzia Szczepaniak (Eugene, Ore., B.S. Liberal Studies) received Honorable Mention status for the Waldo-Cummings Award. All three earned their OSU degrees in June.
Marketing staff lands half-dozen national awards at UPCEA conference
April 2011 - The marketing team of OSU Extended Campus made a splash at a national conference in Toronto, taking home six awards for its work across a variety of media platforms. Ecampus was honored with four silver and two bronze awards at the University Professional & Continuing Education Association's (UPCEA) annual Marketing and Publication Awards banquet.
UPCEA honored Ecampus with silver awards for a radio advertisement; a news release written about the Master of Natural Resources degree program; and a billboard and a single ad of three or more colors. Bronze awards were given for the "No campus required" print-ad campaign and the interactive OSU Summer Session online photo contest.
Outreach efforts of developer, instructor net Awards of Excellence
2010 - The division of Outreach and Engagement at OSU each year recognizes outstanding contributions by faculty and staff that significantly advance the department's mission, and OSU Extended Campus played a key role in doing so in 2010. Lead web developer/designer Ian Cavalier and College of Liberal Arts director Susana Rivera-Mills each received Vice Provost Awards for Excellence for their respective efforts.
Cavalier was honored with the Service Award, which is given annually for exceptional support to an organizational function. Rivera-Mills earned the award for Innovation in Online Credit-based Teaching, given to those who pioneer a new innovative approach to the design or execution of their instruction.
Ecampus marketing returns from national conference with five awards
March 2009 - The OSU Extended Campus (Ecampus) marketing team was the recipient of three University Continuing Education Association Marketing and Publications gold awards for the OSU Summer Session 2008 Web site, a YouTube commercial for Ecampus online chemistry courses and labs and for the marketing campaign for the Ecampus online chemistry courses and labs. Silver awards were given to the OSU Summer Session 2008 e-newsletter and a media release on the Spanish-language Phytophthora training course for nursery growers.
Dean emeritus honored for outstanding service
Apr. 2007 - Bill McCaughan, who retired as dean of Extended Campus in December 2006, was one of two people awarded the Walton S. Bittner Citation for outstanding service to the Univerisity Continuing Education Association (UCEA). Under McCaughan's watch, the Extended Campus online degree program's enrollment more than tripled, growing from 14,000-plus total student credit hours in 2001-02 to more than 45,000 in 2006-07. McCaughan also received the UCEA West Award for Professional Contributions to Continuing Education at the 2006 UCEA West regional conference.
Online pharmacy course awarded at UCEA
Apr. 2007 - At the 2007 University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) awards in Vancouver, B.C., Extended Campus was honored with the distinguished "Distance Learning Non-Credit Course Award" for the online course Human Resource Skills for Pharmacists, a collaboration with OSU's College of Pharmacy.
Marketing team wins a trio of awards at UCEA
Apr. 2007 - OSU Extended Campus won three marketing/publication awards at the 2007 University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) awards in Vancouver, B.C. The statewide campaign to community colleges was awarded a silver in the Mixed-Media Campaign under 25,000 category. The Ecampus newsletter "E-News" received two bronze awards, for "Electronic Marketing and Communication: E-Communication under 25,000" and "Most Improved under 25,000."
ESOL professor honored at national conference
Feb. 2007 - Kathryn M. Ciechanowski, an assistant professor and Ecampus program lead for ESOL/Bilingual endorsement, was awarded first place for her dissertation and was honored at the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) conference in San Jose.
OSU, Ecampus instructor Wright earns statewide distinction
May 2006 - Dawn Wright, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, received the Oregon Assembly for Black Affairs (OABA) Education Award. The OABA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization whose purpose is to improve the political, educational, social, legal and economic status of African-Americans in Oregon. Wright was cited for her many presentations to community youth about mapping and exploring the oceans, including the Corvallis NAACP Awards ceremony and GIS Day.
For previous Ecampus awards and appointments, visit our awards archives.
