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NISOD award
ABOUT ThE Award
NMC is one of more than 700 community college members of NISOD, the National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development. Affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin, NISOD has made the teaching excellence awards to faculty at member institutions since 1989. Nominees are judged on criteria including commitment to learning, professionalism and relationships with both students and colleagues.
Domine, Straw named 2009 NISOD winners
Art instructor Doug Domine, a member of the NMC faculty for more than 20 years, and busineess instructor Jeff Straw, who joined the faculty in 2002, are the 2008-09 winners of NISOD teaching excellence awards at Northwestern Michigan College.
Domine has a BFA from Michigan State University. Prior to joining the NMC faculty in 1988, he worked as an art instructor and freelance artist in Houston, Texas. In 2000 he was named NMC’s Imogene Wise Faculty Excellence Award winner, an award chosen by a student selection committee. In his nomination, NMC colleagues cited his “tireless effort” as the art department chair for nearly a decade, and also as “instrumental in casting vision for the college as a whole” as the co-chair of NMC’s Strategic Planning committee.
Straw earned both a bachelor’s and master of science degree from Michigan Technological University. Before entering the teaching field at NMC, he worked in the IT industry in Colorado. In his nomination, NMC colleagues cited Straw’s “dedication, desire and commitment to teach” as well as his “commitment to learning for his students (and himself).”
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2008: Mary Jo Elliott, Keith Overbaugh
2007: Scott Goethals, Bob Rodriguez
2006: Tamella Livengood, Mark Nelson
2005: Stephen Drake, Deirdre Mahoney, Mark Puchala
2003: Caroline Schaefer, Anne Patrick
2002: Tom Auch, Margery Taylor
2001: Michael Emerson, Sherry Howard, Connie Jason, Michael Torre, Linda Walter
2000: Alison Collins, Diane Emling, Tom Gordon, Jim Press, Mary Quinn, Laura Schmidt, Jackie Shinners, Jim Valovick
1999: Lynne Harris, Gary Klotzbach, Ken Marek, Marty Trapp
1998: Joan Berg, Ann Cook, Jill Hinds
1997: Claudia Bailey, Laurie Chesley, William Faulk, Bronwyn Jones, Jean Rokos, Barbara Tatarchuk
1996: Jim Coughlin, Dianne Keelan, Gordon Niemi, Bruce Mann
1995: Richard Cookman, Robert Dederichs, Lucy House, Keith Kelly, Regis McCord, Megan Roberts, Ken Rose, David Terrell
1994: Linda Anderson, Karen Howie, Debra Pharo, Don Rodriguez, Marty Trapp
1993: Sallie Donovan, Kathleen Duncan, Adam Gahn, Bronwyn Jones, Mary Ann Linsell Mary Norris, Robert Rudd, Mary Vanderkolk
Prior to 1993: Adam Gahn, Mickey Grooters