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Professors win Prominent Teaching Awards

KSU’s Department of Political Science has a long history of teaching excellence. Our professors have won the most prestigious teaching awards that Kansas State University bestows, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Commerce Bank Undergraduate Outstanding Teaching Award, and the William L. Stamey Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. This year is no exception, as two of our faculty members have once again won prominent teaching honors.

Dr. Brianne Heidbreder has received a William L. Stamey Award from KSU’s College of Arts and Sciences. The Stamey Award is the highest teaching honor given in our college. Dr. Heidbreder is known for her engaging and effective instruction style and her outstanding teaching in all types of classes, from large lecture halls to small seminars. We anticipate that Dr. Heidbreder will receive a number of additional teaching accolades in the years to come.

Dr. John Fliter, Jr. has received the foremost teaching honor given across all of Kansas State. He will serve as KSU’s Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars during the 2013-2014 academic year. Dr. Fliter has long been known as a dedicated and passionate professor, and has a well-deserved reputation for teaching excellence among students. His hard work and commitment to teaching have been recognized with this endowed chair, which honors him with the title University Distinguished Teaching Scholar for the remainder of his career. During his year in residence as the Coffman Chair, Dr. Fliter will share his ideas on the art of teaching to the K-State community in a widely publicized lecture as well as in a series of workshops.

Congratulations to Dr. Heidbreder and Dr. Fliter for adding to our department’s rich history of excellence in the classroom.        

 

WELCOME

K-State is first in the nation among public universities in Truman scholarships. Since 1980, 28 K-Staters have won this prestigious national award, and of those 28, 16 have been Political Science majors.


Political Science is the major that focuses on the subject of government in society. The topics studied by political scientists range from public opinion, elections, and interest groups to comparative government, international relations, political philosophy, constitutional law, and public administration.


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WATCH:

A Talk by Jack S. Levy, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers

Levy Lecture Part 1Levy Lecture Part 2

University, Theory and Practice of Preventive War, 27 September 2012

 



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