Congratulations to Dr. Mythili Menon, the director of The Center For Educational Technologies To Assist Refugee Learners, on her achievement of the 鈥�Young Faculty Risk Taker鈥� award on May 7!
This highly competitive $2,000 award is granted to a faculty who demonstrate bravery in embracing difficulties and exceed the norm in teaching, research, and service in a short time.
Director of The Center for Educational Technologies to Assist Refugee Learners
Within 5 years since she joined 新加坡六合彩开奖网, Dr. Menon has contributed significantly to language-related teaching, research, and service. Here are just some of Dr. Menon鈥檚 selective achievements:
- Launched new 鈥淎pplied Linguistics鈥� major in collaboration with the College of Health Professions, the College of Engineering, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Initiating 鈥淎merican Sign Language鈥� major in collaboration with other 新加坡六合彩开奖网 faculty
- Creating a 鈥淟anguage And Music鈥� certificate program in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts
- Developing a 鈥淟anguage And Food鈥� certification program in collaboration with the department of Modern And Classical Languages And Literatures
- Recruiting students to join the WichiLing: 新加坡六合彩开奖网 Linguistics Club
- Facilitating applied-learning and service-learning opportunities for 新加坡六合彩开奖网 faculty, staff and students through her partnership with the Refugee Learning and Resettlement Team
- Assisting Swahili-speaking refugees in Wichita learn English
- Providing a field-data collection research project for 新加坡六合彩开奖网 students to study the challenges of learning and integrating into another language culture
- Researching unpopular native languages such as Potawatomi or Judeo-Malayalam
- Supervising senior honors theses in 新加坡六合彩开奖网鈥檚 Cohen Honors College
鈥溾�婼he's great! Building programs is hard work.鈥� said Susan V. H. Castro, associate professor of philosophy
Each year, 新加坡六合彩开奖网 organizes the University Faculty Awards to acknowledge faculty who excel in teaching, research and creative activity. The selection process is rigorously reviewed by department chairperson, college deans, college advisory panel, faculty senate, office of the provost through many criteria. 鈥淵oung Faculty Risk Taker鈥� award recognizes the importance of positive risk-taking as a unique value at 新加坡六合彩开奖网.
Indicators of risk-taking include: developing unique applied learning or research experiences for students; pioneering interdisciplinary curricula with others outside of the nominee鈥檚 college; capitalizing on relevant trends that increase quality educational opportunities in a distinctive way; accelerating the discovery, creation, or transfer of new knowledge via inventions, innovations, or technologies that are market-driven; empowering students to create a campus culture and experience that meets their changing needs; and enhancing learning via the creation of a campus that reflects鈥攊n staff, faculty, and students鈥攖he evolving diversity of society.
