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HILARY PARMENTIER
Chair, English, Social Sciences, Humanites, Arts, Florida Keys Community,
Key West, FL

Hilary is a dynamic department chair. Hilary works in close collaboration with the
other faculty members to improve the teaching and learning at Florida Keys
Community College (FKCC). For example, this year she created shared resources
and assignments through the college’s learning management system for other
faculty to use. She also led the movement to ofer an open source textbook instead
of a traditional book for both English Composition I and English Composition II.

Additionally, Hilary worked with administration and faculty at the University of
Michigan to bring the Innovation in Education Conference to FKCC. This
conference provided excellent professional development opportunities for her
peers. Hilary not only helped organize the conference but also co-presented a
workshop on creating writing spaces and cross-curricular assignments.

JENNIFER PETTIT
Chair of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB

For the last ten years, Dr. Jennifer Pettit has been the chair of the Department of
Humanities which includes over 30 full-time faculty and 50 part-time faculty and
eleven diferent disciplines. She is an incredibly skilled administrative leader, who
demonstrates mastery over budgets, processes and maintains exceptionally high
morale by selfessly championing colleagues. A pedagogical innovator, she led the
development of a minor in Indigenous studies and a Treaty 7 Field School course
that involves students in travel and experiential learning about local Indigenous
people throughout Southern Alberta. Jennifer has been a tremendous advocate for
teaching excellence as demonstrated through the faculty negotiations committee
and the professional development committee. She has also been a leader among
chairs, continually called upon to provide mentorship. Highly respected across the
institution, it is my pleasure to nominate her for this richly deserved honour.

ANTONIA RIES
Department Chair, Ivy Tech - Lafayette, IN

Antonina, is an outstanding professional, standard bearer of integrity and civility,
exemplary life coach at Ivy Tech Community College, and should be viewed as an
exceptional leader and guide for the profession itself. Over the years Antonina has
been the most visible proponent of bringing science and global learning projects
into our community. She has been out in front, not only in the way she has led her
Science Coach programs into local community, but publicly for the rest of us in the
profession. Hands-on exploration of scientifc principles is exciting and the educa-
tional benefts are plentiful as students develop skills in problem-solving, writing,
and creative thinking. Over the years her students,faculty, and staf have served
as volunteers for thousands of K-12 science fairs and invention conventions and
donated over 3000 hours to community service programs. This exemplary efort
can create a passion for learning science in young students. She goes above and
beyond each and every day to make a diference!

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