Jeffries, Pace receive 2002 Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching

Ehrlich honored for lifetime achievement

Pace

Jeffries was a FACET inductee with the Class of 2001 and has been an innovator in the use of technology in the classroom, developing new teaching strategies for students in clinical nursing programs. She has been instrumental in shifting the focus in the learning lab from teacher-centered to student-centered, by incorporating self-paced independent strategies of learning. With the support of a university grant, she has developed two CD-ROMs which have been published and are being marketed to the nursing community at large.

Pace has distinguished himself in the areas of promoting student learning, encouraging teaching innovation and assessment of those innovations, and creating communities of faculty who support one another in trying new approaches.

In his discipline, Pace has worked diligently to understand the difficulties students encounter in studying history and designed ways to help them succeed at those learning tasks. He has worked with other faculty to enhance student learning through his involvement as a leader of the Freshman Learning Project.

As a co-founder of the Freshman Learning Project on the Bloom-ington campus, he has worked with faculty and administrators to explore new ideas about teaching, examine the experience of novice learners in their disciplines and produce model lessons that employ new strategies of learning in their classes.

As an Ameritech Fellow this past year, Pace developed a Web-based history course (“History of the Future”) that leads students through learning experiences in which they can master the basic skills needed to succeed in history courses in general and his course in particular. To see his course portfolio, go to this site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~futhist/CoursePortfolio/.

FACET also honored Tom Ehrlich, president emeritus of IU, with an honorary 2002 P.A. Mack Award for lifetime service to teaching and commitment to the mission of FACET.