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This award was created in 1998 by the family of the late J. Carlyle Sitterson
to recognize excellence in freshman teaching by a tenured or tenure-track
faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences. Lyle Sitterson, who was a
Kenan professor of history and chancellor of the University from 1966 to 1972,
was a passionate advocate for inspired teaching of freshmen students. This was
the first time the award was given.
The winner received a one-time stipend of $5,000 and a framed citation.
Jane Danielewicz
* Title: Assistant Professor of English
* Faculty member since: 1992
* Other Carolina teaching awards: Favorite Faculty Award, 1995, 1997; J. Minor
Gwyn Award for Teaching Excellence (School of Education), 1993
* University awarding Ph.D.: UC - Berkeley
* Freshman classes taught last year: Reading and Writing Women's Lives, Writing
in Biology
Excerpts from the citation: Jane Danielewicz of the Department of English is a
teacher who recognizes the critical importance of a student's first year in
college and seizes the opportunity to make it an exciting and productive time.
Students praised the individual attention she gives them, her originality in
presenting course material, and her ability to make students feel comfortable
with course material. One student noted, "I have never experienced a writing
project as exciting as our course designs."
[A colleague] said Danielewicz's course evaluations were the most
extraordinarily positive assessments of a teacher he has seen among thousands
of such evaluations over the years.
Teaching style/philosophy: "I show students I'm interested in them and try to
get them talking, writing, thinking, and entering conversations with other
writers, thinkers, and each other. I also want them to engage ideas. My
philosophy: Meet students where they are but let them know they'll have to move
into that big world out there."
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