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Excellence in Education Award

DEADLINE: July 15

The LERA, where professionals interested in all aspects of industrial relations and human resources come together to share ideas and research on new developments, issues, and practices in the field announce this year's series of education awards to recognize teaching excellence. Nominations for these awards will be accepted for outstanding educators at all levels and in a number of related academic disciplines, including but not limited to the following areas:

  • Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations Labor and Employment Law
  • Human Resources Labor History
  • Labor Economics Psychology of Work
  • Labor Education Sociology of Work
 Nominations will be accepted for outstanding educators in these and other areas related to the study of the workplace. Please forward letters of nomination with full contact information for the nominee by July 15, to the LERA national office address below.

Letters of nomination should indicate why an individual should be considered for an award and provide support for the nomination. Those individuals who are nominated will then be asked to submit additional materials in support of their nomination. Specifically, they will be asked to outline their teaching philosophy and provide supporting material aimed at showing how this philosophy is carried out in practice and the impact it has on students. The term "teaching" is used in its broadest sense and includes activities conducted beyond the traditional classroom setting. Among the materials the nominees might wish to present in support of their nominations are syllabi, classroom handouts, evaluations, examples of innovative use of technology, and examples of teaching impact, in informal as well as formal outreach settings.

The winners will be notified in mid-November, and the awards will be presented to recipients at the January LERA meeting. Award recipients will be invited to further discuss their materials through a special session at a future LERA annual meeting.

Nomination Deadline: July 15
Nominee Support Material Deadline: September 20

Send Nominations to:
Paula Wells, Executive Director
Phone: 217/333-1485 · Fax: 217/265-5130 · email: LERAoffice@illinois.edu

Past Winners
2007    
    Douglas McCabe, Georgetown University
2006    
  Daphne Taras, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
  Daniel J.B. Mitchell, Anderson School of Business, UCLA
2005    
    Paul Cole, American Labor Studies Center
2004    
  Mary Ellen Benedict, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
     
2003    
 

Steven K. Ashby, Division of Labor Studies,

Indiana University at Bloomington
  Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law.
     
2002    
  Terry Wagar, Department of Management, Faculty of Commerce, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-Award for Collective Bargaining
  Ruth Needleman, Labor Studies & Women Studies Division of Labor Studies, IU Chair, Swingshift College Program,  Indiana University Northwest-Award for Labor Education
     
2001    
  John Budd
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  Larry "Chip" Hunter
  Arne Kalleberg
    Elaine Yakura
     
2000    
   

Linda Tubach and Patty Litwin, Collective Bargaining Education Project, Los Angeles Unified School District, in the field of Collective Bargaining

    Daniel Cornfield, Vanderbilt University in the field of Sociology
   

Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University in the field of Labor History

    Scott Molloy, University of Rhode Island in the field of Labor History  

 
 
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