Twelve faculty members at Missouri Western State University have been honored with Faculty Performance Review awards. These awards recognize faculty members for achieving excellence through the same review procedure involving peers and supervisors as the institutional promotion and tenure process. Successful applicants must demonstrate promotion-worthy performance in each of the three evaluation areas of teaching, service and scholarship, as well as excellent performance in at least one of the areas.
Faculty members who have already achieved the rank of professor honored and their area of distinction are: Dr. Mike Cadden, Department of English and Modern Languages, scholarship; Dr. Susie Hennessy, Department of English and Modern Languages, service; Dr. Ali Kamali, Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology, teaching; Dr. Brett Luthans, Craig School of Business, scholarship.
Faculty members honored as part of the promotion and tenure process are described as earning “Promotion with Distinction.”
One faculty member was promoted with distinction from associate professor to professor for the 2014-2015 school year: Dr. Michael Ducey, Department of Chemistry, service.
Seven faculty members were promoted with distinction from assistant professor to associate professor: Dr. Michael Charlton, Department of English and Modern Languages, teaching; Dr. Lee Harrelson, Department of Music, scholarship; David Harris, Department of Art, service; Heather Kendall, Department of Nursing and Allied Health, teaching; Dr. Karen Koy, Department of Biology, teaching; Dr. Vivek Madupu, Craig School of Business, scholarship; Dr. Mark Mills, Department of Biology, scholarship.
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