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To Honor Professor Charles Marcus and Continue the Teaching
Award
Senate Bill 1-ARE-1
Submitted for Consideration: 28 May 1996
Action requested: Approval; Requires Two-Thirds Majority
- WHEREAS
- the quality of teaching at this University determines the
richness of the students' experiences and the value of their degrees;
- WHEREAS
- the students of Stanford University therefore have a direct
interest in recognizing and rewarding excellence among the faculty,
graduate students, and others charged with teaching;
- WHEREAS
- pursuant to this, the XXVIth Senated under the Hayes
Consitution instituted the ASSU Teaching Awards, the first of which
was to be awarded in the 1995-1996 academic year;
- WHEREAS
- acting for the XXVIth Senate, the Committee on Academics,
Research, and Evaluation conducted a review of nominations received
from members of the Association, augmented by non-Senate members of
the Association who had expressed interest in such a process; and
- WHEREAS
- that Committee, after considering all nominantions received
via the World Wide Web form, selected Professor Charles Marcus of the
Department of Physics to be the 1995-96 recipient;
- THEREFORE
- be it enacted by the Senate of this Association
- THAT
- the 1995-96 ASSU Teaching Award be formally conveyed to Professor
Marcus at the 1996 May 28 meeting of the Senate;
- THAT
- this award consist of a commemorative plaque as well as the $500
benefice previously allocated;
- THAT
- the Senate further commission a larger plaque to be placed within
the ASSU orffices (or elsewhere as decreed by the Seante), which shall
list this and all future recipients of the ASSU Teaching Award as they
are announced;
- THAT
- provision be made for the selection of another Teaching Award to
be given during the 1996-1997 academic year; and
- THAT
- monies be set aside for the 1996-97 Teaching Award.
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Donald Denton Aingworth
Sat May 25 17:55:19 PDT 1996