ISU General Education Awards Ceremony

The Office of Academic Affairs is excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ISU General Education Teaching Awards! 

This award celebrates excellence in General Education and recognizes faculty who engage students with innovative teaching practices, help non-majors understand and broadly apply disciplinary methods of inquiry, and implement strategies to increase access and affordability for students.  

You are invited to attend the first General Education (GEM) Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, October 7, at 3pm at the Center for Learning and Instructional Excellence in Rendezvous 129 honoring the faculty winners below. Light refreshments will be served.

Randa Kress, Senior Lecturer, Mathematics and Statistics - College of Science and Engineering
Objective #3: Mathematical Ways of Knowing

Andrew Bernard, Associate Lecturer, Chemistry - College of Science and Engineering
Objective #5: Scientific Ways of Knowing

Tessa Anderson, Assistant Lecturer, Psychology - College of Arts and Letters
Objective #6: Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing

Congratulations to these well-deserving faculty!