Two SUNY Fredonia Adjunct Lecturers Receive Chancellor's Award for Excellence

Two faculty members with 20 years of combined service at SUNY Fredonia have been chosen to receive the 2023 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Rebecca Cuthbert and John Stone are recipients of the honor that recognizes nominees who perform superbly in educational environments and maintain instructional policies that adapt readily to student needs, interests and problems. Mastery of teaching techniques must also be demonstrated and substantiated.Cuthbert in an adjunct lecturer in Fredonia's Department of English. According to the six-member Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching Committee, Cuthbert's resume -- beginning with what it called a brilliantly composed cover letter, to her innovative teaching materials, to the high praise given in her letters of support from faculty and students -- establishes her as one of the university's most gifted and respected instructors. She impressed committee members with her wit, precision and engagement and how her experience as a journalist helped to shape the way she teaches creative writing. Cuthbert's credentials emphasize her creativity, connection to students and their needs, rigorously applied standards and inclusion of both proven and cutting-edge pedagogy in creative writing instruction. Cuthbert has taught more than 60 sections of writing courses across 17 semesters.

John Stone is an adjunct lecturer in Economics in the School of Business. The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching Committee recommended Stone with "tremendous enthusiasm" citing his outstanding support of the intellectual growth of individual students and uses of relevant contemporary data from his discipline and of different teaching techniques. A former chair of the Economics department described Stone as "a highly-valued colleague," based on a review of his teaching evaluations, numerous discussions with students about his teaching and the impact he's had on their lives. Students have described Stone as "one of the most compassionate professors ever," "passionate about teaching" and "very enthusiastic about economics." The quality of his teaching is the final piece of the puzzle that creates Stone's teaching excellence, according to the committee.

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