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Dalton State College Professor of Psychology Dr. Christy Price
has been named one of the top ten “Outstanding First-Year
Student Advocates” nationwide by the National Resource Center
for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, an
organization which is based at the University of South Carolina.
Price, who has taught at Dalton State for 17 years, has received
other statewide and local awards over the past few years,
including the prestigious 2008 Award for Excellence in Teaching
from the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents for
two-year and state colleges, and the 2007 DSC Foundation Award
for Teaching Excellence.
“I feel so appreciative of the administration, my colleagues,
and our students,” says Price. “This Outstanding First-Year
Student Advocate award was the result of a campus-wide effort
and really belongs to everyone at Dalton State. Our leadership,
under both the current President John Schwenn, and our former
President Jim Burran, has always supported innovation in
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Price believes that she was nominated for the award because of
her work on the college’s “Retention, Progression, and
Graduation” initiative, her leadership in faculty development
workshops within the USG and other schools, and her
presentations at statewide and national conferences on the topic
of “Motivating and Engaging Millennial Students.”
A total of 84 competitors, who serve administrators on college
and university campuses, were considered for inclusion as top
ten “Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates” award recipients.
Winners of this award “share the common goal of improving the
educational experience of first-year students, yet their methods
for doing so are uniquely responsive to the particular
institutions of which they are a part,” according to a spokesman
from the National Resource Center.
Price was nominated for this award by Dalton State President
Schwenn and Dr. John Hutcheson, Vice-President for Academic
Affairs. As part of the process, Price had to submit an
extensive portfolio documenting her work and its impact on
Dalton State. She will make a presentation at the Annual
Conference on The First-Year Experience in Orlando this February
and will be recognized, along with the other awardees, during
that conference and in an upcoming issue of The Chronicle of
Higher Education.
“Christy has received considerable recognition for her skill as
a teacher and for her work to augment student achievement
generally,” comments Hutcheson.
“Two years ago, she led our campus-wide Retention, Progression,
and Graduation initiative which formulated nearly 60 proposals
that still guide our efforts on that front. She has made
numerous presentations on her research on the Millennial
Generation of students, including a keynote speech to a meeting
of all of the USG’s chief academic and student affairs
officers.”
Price expressed thanks to faculty, staff, and administrators
representing all departments at Dalton State for ongoing support
and for collaborating with her on many of the projects that led
to her receiving this award.
“I am grateful to work under impressive leadership and with
esteemed colleagues, many of whom provided examples of teaching
excellence that I have used in my presentations. And I am
grateful for the support of our students, my colleagues, and my
family.”
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