The
names of the awards may be different, but the intent is the same: to honor the
passion and dedication of faculty chosen by their peers as the year’s best at
Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges.
Four
faculty members – two from each college -- were honored recently with the
academic year’s leading awards recognizing exemplary service to the campuses by
either classroom or non-classroom faculty. The coveted committee-selected
plaudits from each college’s Academic Senate are announced at fall semester
convocations.
At
Grossmont College, receiving the Distinguished Faculty honor for full-time,
tenured faculty was Spanish instructor Yolanda Guerrero. An inaugural
Distinguished Faculty award for part-time faculty was given to longtime math
instructor Michael Lambe. At Cuyamaca College, receiving the Outstanding
Faculty Award for full-time faculty was Spanish instructor Patricia Santana;
the honor for part-time faculty was given to Arabic instructor Aklas Sheia, who
is only the college’s second recipient of the adjunct award.