Awards and Appointments
Below is a showcase of our faculty, staff, students and courses that have won awards, or faculty and staff who have been appointed or elected to prestigious positions outside of the university.
Ecampus Marketing Returns from UCEA 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 Three 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 Awarded 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 Dawn Wright Honored
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 non-profit, non-partisan 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.
Christine Roberts Chosen as National Outstanding Continuing Education Student
March 2005-After winning the regional award in September 2004, Christine Roberts was selected to receive the prestigious National Outstanding Continuing Education Student Award. She traveled to Boston to speak at the national conference and receive her award. Ms. Roberts, who finished her bachelor's degree though OSU Ecampus in June 2004, is now employed in the federal government.
Extended Campus Marketing Team Wins Six National Awards at UCEA
March 2005-The marketing team at Ecampus brought home six awards at the University Continuing Education Association national conference in Boston. Of the six awards, three were for website design, and one each for E-communications, logo design and most improved website.
Ecampus Student Wins Regional UCEA Award
September 2004-Christine Roberts was selected Outstanding Nontraditional Student at the 2004 University Continuing Education Association held in Guadalajara, Mexico. Ms. Roberts, an older than average student with a family and a disability, overcame a myriad of difficulties to persevere and finish her Liberal Studies degree, magna cum laude in June 2004.
Ecampus Faculty Honored at University Day 2004
September 2004-Among the OSU faculty and staff honored at the 2004 University Day presentation on September 21 were the following Ecampus faculty members: Donna Champeau, Public Health - OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; Rebecca Warner, Sociology - Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award; Clara Pratt, Human Development & Family Sciences - D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award; Leslie Davis Burns, Design & Human Environment - Richard M. Bressler Senior Faculty Teaching Award and the Beaver Champion Award; and Paula Minear, Ecampus Department and Student Services Director - OSU Exemplary Employee Award. Congratulations to all!
Instructor Honored with Women of Achievement Award
April 2004-Rebecca Concepion was honored as the first student to win the community's Women of Achievement award. Concepion, who teaches HHS 231 for Extended Campus, is also a doctoral candidate in Exercise and Sports Science and has been recognized for her research on the role of physical activity in the healing process of domestic violence survivors. The award is sponsored by OSU's Women's Center and the Community Alliance for Diversity.
Animal Sciences Course Receives ACE Award
April 2004-ANS 312, Applied Animal Nutrition: Feedstuffs and Ration Formulation won a silver award from the Association for Communication Excellence for Distance Education and Instructional Design. The course was one of 424 entries for the annual ACE awards. Instructor Patrick French and graduate student Annette Buyserie designed the course with assistance from the Ecampus Project Development Team.
Ecampus Instructor Named to Fish & Wildlife Commission
April 2004-Dan Edge, Department Chair of Fisheries and Wildlife and Ecampus instructor at OSU, was appointed by Governor Kulongoski as a member of the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission. The commission forms state programs and policies for the management of fish and wildlife resources. Dr. Edge is an internationally recognized wildlife ecologist and award-winning instructor.
Deans Bill McCaughan (Ecampus) and
Thayne Dutson (College of Ag Science)
at the ADEC Awards Conference
in San Antonio, Texas.
OSU Natural Resources Program Wins National Award
Thayne Dutson (College of Ag Science)
at the ADEC Awards Conference
in San Antonio, Texas.
May 2003-Read about how the OSU Natural Resources online degree program won a national award for Excellence in Distance Education in 2003 from ADEC, the American Distance Education Consortium. The program won this award for the second year in a row.
Dr. Mark Merickel Elected UCEA National Commissioner
2003-Associate Dean of OSU Extended Campus, Mark Merickel, has been elected to serve until 2006 as a national commissioner for the University of Continuing Education Association (UCEA) in the area of "Learning, Instruction and Technology."
FW 340 Takes the Gold!
2003-Judy Li, instructor for FW 340, won a 2003 Gold Award from the Agricultural Communicators in Education for her Fisheries & Wildlife distance course, FW 340: Multicultural Perspectives in Natural Resources. Hers was one of 469 entries submitted to the Critique and Awards program.
OSU Extended Education Faculty Achievement Award
2002-Dr. Mark Merickel, professor of Education and Associate Dean for OSU Extended Campus, was one of two recipients to receive the OSU Extended Education Faculty Achievement Award. In Merickel's 11 years on the OSU faculty, he has excelled in "developing innovative and effective strategies for extending the instructional programs of OSU to working professionals and the growing non-resident, non-traditional student body of the institution."
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2002-Distance faculty Chris Stehr was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. This award was instituted in 1951 by Federal President Theodor Heuss to honor all fields of endeavor and is the highest tribute the Federal Republic of Germany can pay to individuals for services to the nation.
USDA's Food and Agriculture Sciences Teaching Award
2002-Dan Edge, a distance instructor for OSU's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, is one of eight educators nationally to receive USDA's Food and Agriculture Sciences Teaching Award. The award is based on seven categories that assess aspects such as overall teaching ability, creativity, variety, expertise and student services.
Women Studies Distance Course Wins National Award
2002-OSU's Extended Campus course WS 223, taught by Susan Shaw, was given the Meritorious award at the UCEA Annual Conference, as part of the Distance Learning Community of Practice Awards. The Distance Learning Course awards recognize new and innovative courses that utilize one or more forms of instruction at a distance in three categories: college, K-12 and non-credit. Under the college category, one of two Meritorious Course Awards went to WS 223: Women, Self and Society at OSU. The course was written by Susan Shaw, with assistance from her graduate students and produced by the OSU Extended Campus course development team.
