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Record number of instructors ranked as excellent

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Fifty-seven iSchool instructors were named in the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2025—a record number for the School. 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 Barbara Alvarez, Anne Barnhart, Sara Benson, Stephanie Besser, Dawn Betts-Green, Bobby Bothmann, Ian Brooks, Patrick Cain, Jessie Chin, Kahyun Choi, Ryan Cordell, Sarah Park Dahlen, Linda Diekman, J. Stephen Downie, Damian Duffy, Karen Egan, Quinn Morgan Ferris, Yue Guo, Jeanne Holba-Puacz, Karen Jenkins, Halil Kilicoglu, Emily Knox, Ismini Lourentzou, Thomas MacMullen, Rachel Magee, Jessie Mae Maimone, Kristen Mattson, Amanda McLellan, Owen Monroe, David Mussulman, Jill Naiman, Kate Quealy-Gainer, Colin Rhinesmith, Dominic Saebeler, Melissa Salrin, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, JooYoung Seo, Yoo-Seong Song, Zachary Stier, Jennifer Hain Teper, Carol Tilley, Tre Tomaszewski, Kevin Trainor, Michael Twidale, Ted Underwood, John Vincler, Travis Wagner, Ryan Wang, John Weible, Elizabeth Wickes, Karen Wickett, Craig Wills, Martin Wolske, Michael Wonderlich, Melissa Wong, Zhiwen (Jerome) You, and Yang Zhang. 

Brooks, Diekman, Downie, Ferris, Holba-Puacz, Knox, Sanfilippo, Song, Teper, Twidale, and Underwood received the highest ranking of "outstanding."

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