Craig
Larson
NON-TENURE TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD
LARSON EARNS HIGH MARKS
Craig Larson, lecturer in the math department, teaches one of higher
education’s most notorious classes, College Algebra, to 500
students each semester. His efforts to shepherd students through
the dreaded course have earned him the Non-Tenure Teaching Excellence
Award.
Students who have taken his class, which possibly may have the
largest enrollment in the university, have consistently rated him
as one of UH’s best professors.
“Larson’s teaching evaluation statistics clearly exceeded
not only departmental norms,” Justin Leiber, professor of
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philosophy, recalled. “Indeed, they were better than the teaching
statistics of any other faculty member teaching any other undergraduate
course.”
Larson received a $4,000 prize and a trophy. Faculty nominees for
the non-tenure track award must have been on the faculty at least
half-time for three years prior to nomination.
Travis Coggin
Staff writer
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