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Record number of instructors recognized for teaching in Fall 2025

Alma in the summertime

For the Fall 2025 semester, faculty, adjuncts, and teaching assistants who served as instructors for iSchool and Informatics courses were named to the university’s Facilitating Learning Excellence Award, administered by the Illinois Student Council. Beginning last semester, this new award replaced the previous recognition, Teachers Ranked as Excellent. 

Rankings are based on course evaluations from students who complete the newly created Feedback on the Learning Experience Survey (FLEX), a questionnaire issued at the conclusion of the class to students to provide course feedback. Only individuals regularly interacting with all students in a section in a teaching capacity are eligible to administer the questionnaire. FLEX replaced the previous course evaluation system last semester. 

Instructors appearing on the list include: 

Ann Abney, Nikunj Agarwal, Mengting Ai, Barbara Alvarez, Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral, Anne Barnhart, Sydney Benning, Sara Benson, Stephanie Besser, Dawn Betts-Green, Nigel Bosch, Bobby Bothmann, Emilie Butt, Haocong Cheng, Jiangping Chen, Jingyuan Chen, Jessie Chin, Lynn Choi, Ivory (Tao-Ke) Chorng, Ryan Cordell, Anne Craig, Rachel Dankert, Puranjani Das, Linda Diekman, Ke Ding, Damian Duffy, Jasmitha Duvvuru, Karen Egan, Craig Evans, Sarah Gawde, Ece Gumusel, Jim Hahn, Jingrui He, Renee Hendricks, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Hoiem, Gibong Hong, Lan Jiang, Chenyue Jiao, Dhruv Chaitanya Kanekal, Sai Krishna Rohith Kattamuri, Gladys Kemboi, Halil Kilicoglu, Kaden Kirtley, William Langston, Leland Lanquist, Gyuesoek Lee, Gaozheng Liu, Yangyang Liu, Yaoyao Liu, Ismini Lourentzou, Thomas MacMullen, Emily Maemura, Rachel M. Magee, Daniela Markazi, Kristen Mattson, Kate McDowell, Jimmy Miao, Sydney Miller, Owen Monroe, David Mussulman, Christina Myers, Jill Naiman, Andrew Nam, Mahira Narwari, Xuying Ning, Steve Oberg, Lauren Ochs, Felix Oke, Precious Olalere, Pranav Pamidighantam, Sarah Park Dahlen, Judith Pintar, Jeanne Holba Puacz, Ajay Rao, Zoe Revell, Colin Rhinesmith, Adam Rusch, Malik Salami, Melissa Salrin, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Maria Janina Sarol, Togzhan Seilkhanova, Yoo-Seong Song, Zachary Stier, Yiliu Tang, Jennifer Hain Teper, Haileleol Tibebu, Carol Tilley, Vetle Torvik, Kevin Trainor, Alexandria Tran, Michael Twidale, Ebube Uba, Valentine Ugwuoke, Travis L. Wagner, Ke-Rou Wang, Xiaoning Wang, Yang Wang, Lisa Watkins, John Weible, Elizabeth Wickes, Martin Wolske, Michael Wonderlich, Beth Woodard, Melissa Wong, Hugo Xu, Yilin Xia, Yiting Xia, Zihan Yan, Yaman Yu, Tali Zacks, Guangchun Zheng, Hangyue Zhang, Jacqueline (Xitong) Zhang, and Jingfang Zhang.
 

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