The Center for Teaching Excellence promotes teaching practices that enhance student learning at UMD. To this end, the Center facilitates collaborative engagement with the practice and scholarship of teaching; supports faculty in their on-going professional development as educators; and contributes to a campus culture that values excellence in teaching.
Dr. Susan Krumholz is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Crime
and Justice Studies program in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology.
She is also a passionate teacher and a strong advocate of
active/collaborative teaching. She is currently leading the "Inside-Out"
Prison Exchange Program in which her students meet weekly with a group of
residents of the Bristol County House of Corrections (HOC) to exchange
ideas and perceptions about crime and justice, the criminal justice
system, corrections and imprisonment.
Dr. Godwin Ariguzo
was the recipient of the 2005 Charlton College of
Business Higginson Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2005
University-wide Leo M. Sullivan Teacher of the Year Award. He is also a
faculty advisor to the Student International Business Association, and
he received a grant from Microsoft Corporation to develop and implement
computer training programs which received numerous regional and national
awards as an exemplary program.
