Teaching Triumph for UPEI's Jane Magrath
The Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU) recently announced the winners of their 2010 regional awards for excellence in teaching and instructional leadership. Only three award-winners are chosen each year from the 18 universities represented by AAU, and UPEI's Dr. Jane Magrath, is one of them.
UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan said, 'We all join in extending congratulations to Jane, and through her example to the whole network of colleagues who practice and promote high standards in teaching and learning at the University of Prince Edward Island.'
The 18 member institutions of the AAU proposed nominees for the Teaching Awards program and the winners were selected by the AAU's Coordinating Committee on Faculty Development. The other two winners this year were Dr. Diana Austin from UNB and Dr. Brenda Robertson from Acadia.
An associate professor of English, Magrath's areas of expertise include 18th-Century and Women's Literature. She is also one of two co-founders of the Chinook Project, a unique interdisciplinary venture that began in 2006 and provides essential free veterinary care to isolated communities in Canada's North.
In 2004, she received the Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she won the Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership in 2006.
Magrath will receive the 2010 AAU Distinguished Teaching Award which recognizes outstanding teaching over a number of years at a gala dinner in Fredericton on September 28. She will also participate at the annual AAU Teaching Showcase, September 23, which is being hosted by UPEI.
Dr. Shannon Murray, a colleague of Magrath in UPEI's English department, said, 'Jane is such a lively, innovative, and loved teacher, and we're so pleased that she'll be acknowledged for her accomplishments in the classroom. At the AAU showcase, she'll present her thoughts on good teaching at a plenary session, and later she'll address the region's university presidents.'
The AAU represents the 17 universities in Atlantic Canada and the University of West Indies and is an advocate for the important role Atlantic universities play in preparing future leaders of our communities, in path-breaking research and innovation, and in contributing to the economic prosperity and quality of life of the Atlantic region.
