iSchool faculty ranked as excellent

Forty-seven iSchool instructors were named in the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2021. The rankings are released every semester, and results are based on the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Only those instructors who gave out ICES forms during the semester and who released their data for publication are included in the list.

Faculty and instructors appearing on the list include Barbara Alvarez, Jeanie Austin, Anne Barnhart, Sara Benson, Bobby Bothmann, Anne Craig, Peter Darch, Linda Diekman, Ly Dinh, J. Stephen Downie, David Dubin, Damian Duffy, Karen Egan, Kenya Flash, Merinda Hensley, Rebecca Hodson, Elizabeth Hoiem, Jeanne Holba-Puacz, David Hopping, Yun Huang, Halil Kilicoglu, Ellen Knutson, Katie Chamberlain Kritikos, Kathryn La Barre, Yi-Chieh Lee, Scott Matheson, Kristen Mattson, Kate McDowell, Amanda McLellan, Benjamin Mead-Harvey, Jill Naiman, Caroline Nappo, Melissa Ocepek, Megan Oliver, Kate Quealy-Gainer, Bethany Radcliffe, Sara L. Schwebel, Rebecka Sheffield, Carol Tilley, Kevin Trainor, Matthew Turk, Yang Wang, John Weible, Elizabeth Wickes, DeAnza Williams, Melissa Wong, and Beth Woodard.

Austin, Craig, Diekman, Dinh, Downie, Egan, Holba, Huang, Kritikos, La Barre, Lee, Matheson, Mattson, Mead-Harvey, Oliver, Quealy, Tilley, and Wong received the highest ranking of "outstanding."

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