Buttino Receives UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence
4/8/2005 11:33:22 AM
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April 7, 2005
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 11th 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. Louis F. Buttino, professor of film studies 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 May 13 in Chapel Hill by UNC President Molly Corbett Broad and Board of Governors Chairman J. Bradley Wilson of Cary.
An award-winning filmmaker, Buttino involves students in his documentary productions as writers, researchers, assistant directors and producers, and cinematographers. Drawing on his experience as a documentary filmmaker, he taught students interviewing and filmmaking skills and shared his experience interviewing people in a mining community after an armed insurrection. Many of Buttino’s films have been shown on PBS, including “The Lessons of September: One School Remembers 9/11,” which was nominated by WNET-TV, New York City, for a George Foster Peabody Award. He has published widely as a novelist, biographer, historian, newspaper columnist, dramatist and magazine writer. At UNC Wilmington since 1995, he has received the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, The Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award, an Award for Faculty Scholarship, and the J. Marshall Crews Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award. Buttino received his B.A. from Colgate University, master’s degrees from the University of Miami and Crozer Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.
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.
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Editor’s Note: A copy of this release, including a photo of Buttino, is available online at www.northcarolina.edu.
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