iSchool instructors ranked as excellent

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Fifty-six iSchool instructors were named in the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2024 and Winter 2024-2025. The rankings are released every semester, and results are based on the ratings from 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 administered ICES at least once during the semester and who released their data for publication are included in the list. 

Faculty and instructors appearing on the list include Joanna Adewunmi, Suzan Alteri, Barbara Alvarez, Anne Barnhart, Stephanie Besser, Dawn Betts-Green, Nigel Bosch, Bobby Bothmann, Jack Brighton, Emilie Butt, Jessie Chin, Kahyun Choi, Anne Craig, Rachel Dankert, Linda Diekman, J. Stephen Downie, Karen Egan, Claudia Grisales Bohorquez, Cassandra Hawkins, Merinda Hensley, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Jeanne Holba-Puacz, Jimi Jones, Halil Kilicoglu, Emily Knox, Ellen Knutson, Alaine Martaus, Kristen Mattson, Mark McCallon, Kate McDowell, Bradley Miller, Sydney Miller, Christy Moss, David Mussulman, Precious Olalare, Allen Renear, Adam Rusch, Melissa Salrin, Sara Schwebel, JooYoung Seo, Yoo-Seong Song, Zachary Stier, Jennifer Hain Teper, Travis Wagner, Yang Wang, John Weible, Elizabeth Wickes, Karen Wickett, Walter Wilson, Martin Wolske, Michael Wonderlich, Melissa Wong, Ramazan Yener, Roman Zapata, Yang Zhang, and Heng Zheng. 

Alteri, Choi, Craig, Hensley, Holba-Puacz, Mattson, McDowell, B. Miller, S. Miller, Moss, Mussulman, Renear, Song, Weible, Wilson, Wolske, Wonderlich, and Wong received the highest ranking of "outstanding."

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