Educational excellence

K-State has a long history in the classroom

 

Kansas State University is a national leader in the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education competition for Professor of the Year.

Three K-State professors have won the national professor of the year award in the research/ doctoral university category, more than any other research/ doctoral university. K-State is also the only research/ doctoral university in the nation to win both the national and state awards in the same year. K-State has had three national professors of the year, seven Kansas professors of the year, and one professor who twice won a silver award in the competition when it was first initiated.

 

2007 Chris Sorenson	2007 David Littrell	2006 Harald Prins	2000 Bryan Schurle
1996 Dean Zollman	1993 Andrew Barkley	1992 Melvin Hunt	1991 Deborah Canter

Photos: K-State boasts the highest number of Carnegie/CASE winners in Kansas. (Not pictured are past winners and professors emeriti Miles McKee (1990) and Richard Consigli (1985 and 1986).

 

Winners include:

* Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology, national winner for research/doctoral universities, 2008.

* Chris Sorensen, university distinguished professor of physics, national winner for research/doctoral universities, 2007. Sorenson is the current Coffman Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

* David Littrell, university distinguished professor of music, Kansas winner, 2007

* Harald Prins, university distinguished professor of anthropology, Kansas winner, 2006

* Bryan Schurle, professor and head of agricultural economics, Kansas winner, 2000

* Dean Zollman, university distinguished professor of physics, national winner for research/doctoral universities, 1996

* Andrew Barkley, professor of agricultural economics, Kansas winner, 1993.

* Melvin Hunt, professor of animal sciences and industry, Kansas winner, 1992

* Deborah Canter, professor of dietetics and head of the department of hotel, restaurant, institution management and dietetics, Kansas winner, 1991

* Miles McKee, university distinguished professor of animal sciences, Kansas winner, 1990

* Richard Consigli, university distinguished professor of biology emeritus, was the first K-State professor to win the award and in both 1985 and 1986 was designated a Silver Award medalist, a level beyond the state winner, which has since been discontinued.