Previous Writing Prize Winner
2024: Leo Nelson, Universal Empathy: A Foundation for Radical Change.
2023: Colin Hutton, Structure and Expression in Kind of Blue and the Periodic Table.
2022: Owen Finch, A Challenge of Jeremy Waldron’s Argument Regarding Dignity and Offense.
2020 - Willow Higgins, Louis Ironson in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Vancouver, Washington.
Submit your paper for the Writing Prize
You may submit papers for consideration for The Writing Prize to the First-Year Studies Director at the end of each term.
Papers should not be substantially rewritten from their original submission to your instructor.
The Teaching Award
Faculty members from across the university who teach in the First-Year Studies program do more than pass along information. They model for students the challenging process of grappling with difficult or unfamiliar works, cultures, and ideas. In short, they help students learn how to learn. Each year since 1994, one faculty member has been recognized by the university for excellence in the teaching of First-Year Studies.
Previous Teaching Award Winner
- 2024: Helen Boyd Kramer
- 2023: Megan Pickett
- 2022: Erica Scheinberg
- 2020: Garth Bond