Annual Report | 2011-12 | South Florida State College

FACULTY EXCELLENCE
Kathleen
Cappo
Kathleen
Cappo, professor of
nursing, received
the 2012 Endowed
Teaching Chair
Award in Nursing.
Dr. Deborah Milliken, professor,
Dental Hygiene, and Elizabeth
Andrews, professor, Developmental
Writing, and
coordinator,
Academic
Foundations,
received National
Institute for Staff
and Organizational
Development
Dr. Deborah
Milliken
Elizabeth
Andrews
(NISOD) awards.
Dr. Milliken
received her
NISOD award for
her work in the
dental hygiene
program and for
her contributions
and leadership with
the SACs steering
committee and
compliance report.
Andrews received
her NISOD award for providing
leadership during the development of
the academic foundations program for
students who require developmental
reading, writing, and mathematics
class.
Dr. Michele
Heston
Dr. Michele
Heston, director,
Nursing Education,
earned the
designation
Certified Nurse
Educator (CNE)
in 2012 after
completing
a rigorous
certification examination administered
by the National League for Nursing.
The certification establishes nursing
education as a specialty area of
practice and creates a means for
faculty to demonstrate their expertise
in this role. It communicates to
students, peers, and the academic
and health care communities that the
highest standards of excellence are
being met within a program.
Mollie Doctrow, curator of the
SFSC Museum of Florida Art and
Culture (MOFAC), received an Award
of Excellence during the Lake Wales
Art Show for her black and white
woodcut prints featuring endemic,
rare, and endangered plants that
grow in Florida’s native habitats. The
Crealde School of Art exhibited a
selection of her woodcut prints in May
2012.
Dawn Pisarski, professor of
nursing, received the Samaritan’s
Touch Care Center Hero Award for her
volunteer work as a nurse practitioner
at the center.
Dr. Brian Deery with Kiearia
Williams
During the college’s annual
Awards Day ceremony, SFSC students
chose Dr. Brian Deery as the 2012
Full-time Faculty of the Year and
Jim Houseknecht as Adjunct Faculty
of the Year for the Division of Arts
and Sciences. Dr. Cherie Stevens was
chosen Full-time Faculty of the Year
and Lisa McConnell as Adjunct Faculty
of the Year for Applied Sciences and
Technologies. Nelly Ford and Janet
Tooley tied as Instructor of the Year for
Adult Education.
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