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Excellence in the Academy Awards

NEA honors scholars for articles promoting quality learning and democracy in higher education.

The more than 350 faculty and staff attending this year's NEA Higher Education Conference in early March took time out on opening night to honor three scholars for their winning entries in the fourth annual NEA Excellence in the Academy Awards writing competition.

The 2001 Art of Teaching Prize went to Lisa Rosowsky, assistant professor of graphic design at the Massachusetts College of Art, for her article "Nothing Without Joy: A Parable of Learning." Professor Rosowsky is a member of the Massachusetts State College Association, an NEA higher education affiliate.

In the Democracy in Higher Education category, the winner is Evelyn Beck, an English professor at Piedmont Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina, for her article "The Mysterious Territory of Distance Learning."

NEA's New Scholar prize went to Kathleen Hull, an adjunct assistant professor in the general studies program at New York University for her manuscript "Eros and the Role of Desire in Teaching and Learning."

The deadline for article submissions to the 2002 NEA Excellence in the Academy Awards competition is September 30, 2002.

Award categories are: the Art of Teaching Prize, for an article addressing issues of teaching and learning; the Democracy in Higher Education Prize, for an article that promotes the democratic culture of higher education; and the New Scholar Prize, for an article in either of the categories by a scholar with less than seven years in the profession.

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

Two positions are currently open on the Review Panel of Thought & Action, the NEA Higher Education Journal. The positions carry three-year terms and start this coming fall.

Interested in applying? Please send a résumé and writing sample to Con Lehane, NEA Communications, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-3290 or E-mail CLehane@nea.org.

The NEA 2002 Almanac of Higher Education is now available and downloadable in its entirety from the NEA Higher Education Web site: www.nea.org/he/healma2k2/index.html.

The 2002 Almanac looks at 10-year faculty salary trends using 1999 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty data, evaluates approaches to merit and market-based pay, assesses bargaining trends, examines the effects of institutional characteristics on tenure, and tries to find the silver lining in declining state tax revenues.