The 2023 Academy Awards were announced during the closing session of the PE Conference on June 10, 2023. No red carpet and no speeches. But we honored these deserving winners for their contributions to excellence in Process Education!
Tris has thoughtfully led and implemented the Academy professional development program, created the PE in a Nutshell resource, and been a leader of the mentoring skills performance measures project. He participates in and contributes to the PE Expert initiative, and has been an effective mentor at the Fall 2022 Self-Growth Institute. Tris has authored multiple IJPE articles that add depth to PE scholarship, been a PE mentor and coach for several colleagues at Kennesaw and in the Academy, authored well-received conference orientation materials used in pre-conference sessions for facilitators and participants, and has been activity on the IJPE editorial review board.
Mary is a founding member of the Academy. She has sponsored and co-facilitated many PE events at UIndy over the last 20+ years, and created, organizes, and participates in the Achieving Academic Success and Student Success Institute programs at UIndy. Mary’s long-term service to the Academy includes serving in the roles of President, Assessment Director, on the Conference Planning Committee, and as a member of the IJPE editorial team. Mary also disseminates PE principles and practices in program assessment within UINdy’s regional accreditation organization.
Active Process Educators at VSU include Dr. Donald Palm (Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic and Student Success and Engagement) and Professors Chaya Jain, Grace Ndip, Brian Sayre, Cheryl Talley, Colleen Taylor, and Leslie Whiteman. VSU has had strong involvement in sponsoring and delivering three Academy conferences in varied formats: face-to-face, hyflex, and online. These events have engaged considerable participation from VSU faculty, staff, and administrators, and several faculty have served on the Academy Board over the years. VSU has expanded the learning and practice of Process Education in connection with their NSF STAR grant, and VSU University administration supports improving student success using PE principles and practices.
In Grace’s five years of Academy membership, she has co-facilitated numerous Academy PD events and has been an engaged participant of multiple institutes, including Teaching Institute, Teaching Learning to Learn Institute, Performance Measures Institute, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute. Grace was also a strong performer at the Fall 2023 Self-Growth Institute and is an active participant in the PE Expert initiative. She has also been a co-author of numerous PE conference presentations.
This upcoming article reveals how to generate learning from “a ha” moments, to capture and deepen insights as consciously elaborated hypotheses or propositions clear enough to be acted upon. This practice supports the intentionality of how to use the learning in the future for performance and/or growth. This methodology can lead to major conceptual breakthroughs with the potential for strengthening learners, practitioners, and researchers. Check it out, and all of the articles, in the upcoming issue of the IJPE!
Dan is a founding member of the Academy and has been a strong force in the organization and the development of our members. Dan has mentored the Academy leadership and challenged the group to raise our expectations and do big and transformational work. He has supported the development of each of us to do more, be more, increase our quality of life, and offer the best we can for our students.