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iSchool instructors ranked as excellent

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Fifty-one iSchool instructors were named in the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2022. 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, Brandon Batzloff, Crystal Betts-Green, Jack Brighton, Emilie Butt, David Charles, Inkyung Choi, Sharon Comstock, Anne Craig, Linda Diekman, Jana Diesner, J. Stephen Downie, Damian Duffy, David Eby, Jingrui He, Renee Hendricks, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Hoiem, Jeanne Holba Puacz, David Hopping, Halil Kilicoglu, Kyungwon Koh, Katie Chamberlain Kritikos, Zoe LeBlanc, Haoyang Liu, Bertram Ludäscher, Morgan Lundy, Jessie Maimone, Kristen Mattson, Kate McDowell, Benjamin Mead-Harvey, Christy Moss, David Mussulman, Jill Naiman, Melissa Newell, Melissa Ocepek, Divya Pathak, Adam Rusch, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Yoo-Seong Song, Jennifer Hain Teper, Vetle Torvik, Kevin Trainor, Michael Twidale, Tine Walczyk, Dong Wang, John Weible, Elizabeth Wickes, Walter Wilson, Michael Wonderlich, and Melissa Wong.

Alvarez, Craig, Downie, Eby, Hopping, Kritikos, McDowell, Teper, and Wong received the highest ranking of "outstanding."

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