Starting in the 2022-2023 academic year, Marshall created several significant new awards for faculty demonstrating teaching excellence. This initiative is part of Marshall’s continued efforts to provide the best and most cutting-edge education to the next generation of business leaders by supporting, acknowledging, and rewarding teaching excellence.

“Marshall faculty are among the world’s top educators, and their work in the classroom creates a lifelong impact for thousands of students each year,” said DEAN GEOFFREY GARRETT. “It’s a privilege to honor the winners for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to teaching excellence.”

Award winners were determined from the pool of full-time faculty based on student course evaluations, department/school recommendations, the amount of student impact, as well as identifying those faculty praised for innovation in new courses and course design, creative use of technology, inclusive teaching practices, and integrating research and contemporary industry practices into courses.

Announced in May 2023, teaching award winners were spread across departments, programs, tenured, and non-tenure track faculty, representing the broad scope of Marshall’s teaching excellence. The teaching award winners are:

Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award
SMRITY RANDHAWA, Professor of Clinical Accounting

Marshall Teaching Excellence Awards
MURAT BAYIZ, Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations
CHRIS BRESNAHAN, Associate Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
KEVIN FIELDS, Associate Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics
KRISTEN JACONI, Associate Professor of the Practice of Accounting
STEPHEN LIND, Associate Professor of Clinical Business Communication
EMILY NIX, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics
MICHAEL PARANAL, Assistant Professor of Clinical Accounting
JULIA PLOTTS, Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics
PAAT RUSMEVICHIENTONG, Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
SIVARAMAKRISHMAN SIDDARTH, Professor of Marketing
LEIGH TOST, Associate Professor of Management and Organization

“In addition to promoting cutting-edge research, by establishing these teaching awards and Chairs in Teaching Excellence, Marshall is acknowledging and rewarding faculty for success in the classroom,” said Vice-Dean of Teaching & Faculty Affairs PATRICIA MILLS, who was instrumental in creating a significant number of new and enhanced awards for faculty demonstrating teaching excellence.

Part of the initiative to recognize and reward exceptional teaching was also the creation of several endowed teaching chair positions. These five-year appointments are effectively a lifetime achievement award for teaching, honoring those educators who have consistently demonstrated outstanding teaching practices over the course of their time at Marshall. Marshall’s new Chairs in Teaching Excellence have been awarded to:

PETER CARDON, Bennis Chair in Teaching Excellence
BECKY HEINO, Cyrus the Great Teaching Chair in Timeless Leadership
PATRICIA MILLS, Maffei Chair in Teaching Excellence
DAWN PORTER, Fubon Chair in Teaching Excellence
DAN WADHWANI, Jill Brooks-Garnett Teaching Chair in Entrepreneurship

Strengthening and expanding recognition of teaching is Marshall’s way of thanking faculty for their pivotal role in developing tomorrow’s leaders and for placing Marshall at the forefront of modern comprehensive business education.

“Teaching is, of course, central to our mission and by recognizing our most successful teachers with both honors and monetary awards, Marshall is highlighting the importance it places on teaching excellence,” said Mills.