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Three Win NEA Excellence Award

NEA annual awards recognize writings from the academy that further the art of teaching and promote campus democracy.

Three scholars, two of them NEA higher education members, were honored at this year's NEA higher education conference for their winning entries in the third annual NEA Excellence in the Academy Awards writing competition.

The 2000 Art of Teaching award went to Henry M. Abramson, assistant professor of history and Judaic studies at Florida Atlantic University, for his article "Talmudic Studies: 400 Repetitions and the Divine Voice."

In the Democracy in Higher Education category, the winner was Randy K. Schwartz, a math professor at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan, for his article "Unity in Multiplicity: Lessons from the Alhambra."

Luz Claudio, an associate professor in environmental and occupational medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, won the 2000 New Scholar prize for "Changing the Face of Science." The three award-winning articles will appear in the Spring 2001 Thought & Action.

The deadline for article submissions to the 2001 NEA Excellence in the Academy awards competition is September 30, 2001.

Award categories are: the Art of Teaching Prize, for an essay addressing issues of teaching and learning; the Democracy in Higher Education Prize, for an article that promotes the democratic culture of higher education; the New Unionism in the Academy Prize, for an article describing a local Association's efforts to promote quality learning for all; and the New Scholar Prize, for an article in any of the above categories by a scholar with less than seven years teaching in higher education.

Details and submission guidelines can be found at www.nea.org/he/ajeaward.html.

Information Technology: A Road to the Future is the latest publication in the NEA Academic Justice and Excellence Series.

The monograph, written for NEA by Kenneth C. Green, director of the annual Campus Computing Survey, and Steven W. Gilbert, head of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable, aims to demystify technology issues and provide a framework for technology discussions on our nation's campuses.

E-mail HigherEd@nea.org for a copy.

NEA Higher ed members can get a taste of what nearly 400 of their colleagues experienced at this year's NEA Higher Education at www.nea.org/he/conf2k1/. The site contains papers by the conference's featured speakers and background on the conference.