League Reaffirmation - Johnson County Community College

JCCC faculty members have received the National
Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
(NISOD) Excellence Award at the annual NISOD
conference. This award recognizes faculty who
epitomize “the importance of teaching in open­door
settings.” Recipients in 2006 were Brenda
Edmonds, associate professor, mathematics; Samira
Hussein (pictured with students, above, second from
left), associate professor, business administration;
and Susan Johnson, professor and career program
facilitator, engineering technology. Recipients in
2007 were Janalee Isaacson, professor, nursing;
Kathy Carver, professor, nursing; and Theresa
McChesney, assistant professor, mathematics.
Jill Stinson, head volleyball coach, received the
NJCAA Division II Coach of the Year award in 2005
and was also named the AVCA Coach of the Year in
2005 (the first for a JCCC head volleyball coach) and
again in 2007. In 2006, she was inducted into the
NJCAA Volleyball Coaches Hall of Fame.
Anita Tebbe, professor and career program
facilitator, paralegal, is chair of the American Bar
Association Approval Commission, which automatically
makes her a member of the ABA Standing Committee
on Paralegals. The role of the Approval Commission is
to foster high­quality paralegal education, which is
accomplished through the review of self­evaluation
reports and onsite inspections of programs seeking ABA
approval or reapproval.
In 2005­2006, John Courtney, professor, hospitality
management (now retired), was awarded a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the American Culinary
Federation Greater Kansas City Chefs Association.
Julie Haas, executive director, Marketing
Communications, was named Communicator of the
Year for 2005 by District 5 of the National Council for
Marketing and Public Relations.
Carolyn Neptune, professor, mathematics (now
retired), was one of five recipients of a teaching
excellence award given by the American Mathematical
Association of Two­Year Colleges (AMATYC) in 2005­
2006. She received an AMATYC medallion, which
recognizes educators who have made outstanding
contributions to mathematics education at two­year
colleges.
Dr. Doug Patterson, associate professor, astronomy
and physics, received the Ulysses Achievement Award
from the European Space Agency in 2005­2006 for his
contributions to the joint ESA/NASA Ulysses Project,
which is a spacecraft that has been circling the sun for
15 years.
Timothy Lednicky, associate professor, metal
fabrication, was named the Teacher of the Year in
2005­2006 by the Kansas Association for Career and
Technical Education.
Mary Grace Foret, associate professor, English,
received the 2003­2004 Houghton Mifflin Award for
Dedication to Community College ESL Teaching,
awarded by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages (TESOL). Foret helped develop JCCC’s credit
ESL program, assisted in the creation of the noncredit
Intensive English Program and co­wrote the curriculum
for the English for Academic Purposes courses that
began in fall 2004 for non­native speakers.
In April 2004, Dr. Marilyn Rhinehart, vice
president, Instruction, received the Instructional
Leadership Award from the National Council of
Instructional Administrators. The Instructional Leadership
Award recognizes an active instructional administrator
at a two­year college who demonstrates creativity and
innovation, commitment to instructional issues and a
positive influence on the college organization.
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