Taking a bow: OCUFA honours outstanding university faculty

"'Passionate educator', 'outstanding contributor', and 'a strong commitment to public service and community outreach' are just some of the attributes used to describe the recipients of this year's OCUFA Awards," said Dr. Henry Jacek, President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) today as he announced the names of those chosen to receive the 2002 OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards.

"This year's Award winners are a reflection of the enthusiastic talent and effective teaching found in university classrooms and library support services throughout the province's universities" said Dr. Jacek.

"Each year OCUFA is proud to honour individual faculty members at Ontario universities who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their respective disciplines," said Dr. Jacek. "The Teaching Awards are presented to professors who inspire and inform through their teaching, course development, and research. They make a difference both to their academic discipline, and to the lives of their students, by offering the best they can professionally. And the recipient of the Academic Librarianship Award is selected based on his or her contribution to scholarly achievement in a particular area of expertise in the academic community."

"This is the time of year at OCUFA that we are pleased to invite some of our own to take a well-deserved bow,"said Dr. Jacek. The OCUFA Teaching Awards were established in 1973 and the OCUFA Academic Librarianship Award was established in 1990. They are presented annually.

The OCUFA Award winners are:

OCUFA Academic Librarianship Award 2002

Sandra Casey
Education Library
Queen's University

OCUFA Teaching Awards 2002

Bertha Garcia
Department of Pathology
The University of Western Ontario

Claude Lamontagne
School of Psychology
University of Ottawa

David Poole
Department of Mathematics
Trent University

Casey Sokol
Department of Music
York University

Jean Wilson
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
McMaster University

Malgorzata Zywno
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryerson University

Serving on this year's OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards Committee are:

Donald Hair, Chair (English, Western), Joanne Chumakov (Scott Library, York), Joel Duff (Canadian Federation of Students), Richard Holmes (Philosophy, Waterloo), Alan Morgan (Earth Sciences, Waterloo) and Judith Robertson (Education, Ottawa).

OCUFA represents the province's 11,000 university professors and academic librarians.

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