Student, faculty accomplishments awarded at Academic Honors Convocation April 21

ASHLAND, Ohio – About 75 Ashland University students were recognized individually for their academic achievement and two faculty members were honored for their outstanding work at the annual Academic Honors Convocation, held April 21 at the Jack and Deb Miller Chapel.

The purpose of the convocation is to celebrate academic achievement, promote community and recognize sophomores, juniors and seniors with Outstanding Student Awards. The criteria for those awards are scholarly achievement, completion of at least 30 credit hours at AU and a GPA of 3.25 or above, and the honorees are presented by the dean or representative from each college.

The program also revealed the finalists and recipients of the Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award, the university’s most prestigious teaching award, and the Excellence in Scholarship Award, which recognizes AU faculty who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship. To be considered for the Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award, faculty must first be nominated as someone who epitomizes high quality instruction, and then a winner is selected by a committee which reviews the nominees’ teaching evaluations, teaching philosophy statement and letters of support, and conducts unannounced classroom observations of the nominees. The Excellence in Scholarship Award goes to nominated faculty with a record of outstanding scholarship, including but not limited to peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations, book chapters, manuscripts and other creative work. The nominees for this award are reviewed by a committee, which examines the scholarly work of the nominees and then conducts a call with an external expert in the nominees’ field before selecting a winner.

Listed below are the recipients of the academic awards:

Ashland University’s Edward and Louaine Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award:
Timothy Hinkel, assistant professor of accounting

Ashland University’s Excellence in Scholarship Award:
Daniel Hawk, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew

College of Arts and Sciences

Dauch College of Business & Economics

Dwight Schar College of Education

Department of Teacher Education:

Dwight Schar College of Nursing and Health Sciences