Ainsley Receives UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence
4/13/2004 12:00:00 AM
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CHAPEL HILL – The Board of Governors of the 16-campus University of North Carolina has selected some of its most outstanding faculty to receive the tenth annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching. During a recognition luncheon to be held in conjunction with the Board’s May meeting, a faculty member from each UNC campus will receive a commemorative bronze medallion and a $7,500 cash prize. W. Frank Ainsley, professor of geography at UNC Wilmington, will be among those honored.
The 16 recipients, representing an array of academic disciplines, were nominated by special committees on their home campuses and selected by the Board of Governors Committee on Personnel and Tenure, chaired by John W. Davis III of Winston-Salem. The awards will be presented by UNC President Molly Corbett Broad and Board of Governors Chairman J. Bradley Wilson of Cary.
Since coming to UNC Wilmington in 1973, Ainsley has played a major role in the development of the geography program, helping to develop new courses and the geography major, as well as working with honors students, graduate students, and regional public school teachers. He also has taught at the University of the West Indies’ campus in Barbados and led UNCW’s residential study seminar for honors students at Swansea, Wales. Ainsley has contributed significantly to geographic education in
the public schools, organizing and teaching several Summer Institutes for teachers sponsored by the North Carolina Geographic Alliance and presenting workshops for the North Carolina Social Studies Conference and a number of school districts. In 2003, the North Carolina Geographic Society named him its Educator of the Year.
Established by the Board of Governors in April 1994 to underscore the importance of teaching and to reward good teaching across the university, the awards are given annually to a tenured faculty member
from each UNC campus. Winners must have taught at their present institutions at least seven years. No one may receive the award more than once.
The oldest public university in America, the University of North Carolina today encompasses all 16 of North Carolina’s public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees and enrolls more than
183,000 students. UNC campuses support a broad array of distinguished liberal-arts programs, two medical schools and one teaching hospital, two law schools, a veterinary school, a school of pharmacy, ten nursing programs, 15 schools of education, three schools of engineering, and a
specialized school for performing artists. Also under the University umbrella are the UNC Center for Public Television with its 11-station statewide broadcast network, and the NC School of Science and
Mathematics, the nation’s first public residential high school for gifted students.
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