Three Morningside College faculty members and one academic program have received the Dr. William C. Yockey Assessment Awards, which annually recognize outstanding efforts to improve student learning at Morningside.

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Three Morningside College faculty members and one academic program have received the Dr. William C. Yockey Assessment Awards, which annually recognize outstanding efforts to improve student learning at Morningside.

Faculty members who received awards for courses they teach were Dr. Valerie Hennings, associate professor of political science, for her Mock Trial course; Dr. Jessica Pleuss, associate professor of psychology, for her course Lifespan Development; and Dr. Dianna Sorenson, professor of nursing education, for her course Health Care Policy and Economics.

The Morningside College Teacher Intern Program received a department/program award in recognition of the program’s efforts to assess and improve student learning.

A $2,500 cash prize is included with each award, which covered assessment of student learning conducted at Morningside during the 2017-2018 academic year.  Dr. Joel Frederickson, associate dean of institutional assessment and accreditation and chair of the psychology department at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., served as outside evaluator for the awards.

The family of the late Dr. William C. Yockey, a 1949 Morningside graduate and a chemistry professor at the college for more than 30 years, established the awards in his name.