Four faculty members from Indiana University South Bend were selected to receive the the 2006 Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching award. The 2006 South Bend FACET honorees are: Rebecca Brittenham, assistant professor of English; Ann Grens associate professor of biological sciences; Jerry Hinnefeld, professor of physics; and Elaine Roth, assistant professor of English.

A total of 19 faculty members from all the IU campuses were selected. They join other IU faculty members who have been chosen annually since FACET’s inception in 1989, bringing the current membership to 465.

FACET awards are presented to IU faculty members who have demonstrated their exceptional commitment to teaching and learning through areas of self-evaluation, course preparation, research, instructional skills, and student impact.

The new FACET members, along with the 2006 recipient of the P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching, will be honored in mid-May before a group of university administrators, trustees, FACET alumni, and special guests at the annual FACET Retreat at Potawatomi Inn Resort and Conference Center, Angola.

FACET, an IU presidential initiative, is designed both to recognize and enhance outstanding teaching throughout the IU system and to promote continued development of teaching excellence among colleagues at IU and beyond.

In recent years, FACET’s efforts have expanded both at the campus level and statewide. FACET activities planned for 2006 include the Leadership Institute, Associate Faculty Conference, Future Faculty Teaching Fellows conference in partnership with RUGS; and further efforts to establish the Mack Center at Indiana University for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning.

FACET members also have written a number of popular publications including: Quick Hits, More Quick Hits, Quick Hits for New Faculty: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teacher; and Quick Hits for Educating Citizens, (to be released in May 2006); Peer Review of Teaching CD-ROM, which is in production; and the FACET Choir Video: What’s a Teacher For? The Nurturing No-Nonsense Classroom available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

FACET Directors Sharon Hamilton and Robert Orr, encapsulate FACET’s mission by stating, “FACET is a community of faculty, dedicated to and recognized for excellence in college teaching and learning. It is a dynamic and vital statewide community of distinguished faculty at Indiana University.”

For more information about FACET, please see FACET Web at www.facet.iupui.edu or contact the FACET office at IUPUI, University Library 1140, or Kimberly Lane, FACET manager at (317) 274-0086; e-mail: ktlane@iupui.edu or facet@iupui.edu