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Dr. Diane Kelly and Dr. Ronald Bergquist receive Outstanding Teacher of the Year Awards
May 16 , 2007 -
Two School of Information and Library Science faculty members were honored with Outstanding Teacher Awards for the 2006-2007 school year during the school's May 13 commencement ceremony. Dr. Diane Kelly, assistant professor, and Dr. Ronald Bergquist, adjunct assistant professor of practice, were nominated by students on the basis of their teaching excellence, innovation, classroom instruction and mentoring.
"This person's [Kelly's] concern for and involvement in student's learning is demonstrated both inside and outside the classroom in all the roles of a good teacher; providing feedback to students on their work, mentoring, advising, including students in research and going above and beyond to provide learning opportunities,” said last year's recipient Dr. Stephanie Haas, professor. "This individual has received enthusiastic praise for teaching--even courses that are not necessarily the most popular in our curriculum. I was told once that this person "really rocks as a teacher!"
A member of the SILS faculty since January 2004, Dr. Kelly specializes in user modeling, relevance feedback, personalization, information-seeking behavior, experimental design and analysis and research methods. She earned her B.A. from the University of Alabama and she received her M.S.L.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Dr. Bergquist received the Outstanding Teacher Award specifically reserved for adjunct faculty. "The nomination letters for this year's recipient include words like dedication, engaging and caring in sentences with phrases like, "helped build and encourage" and "has encouraged and help mold.," said Lisa Norberg, last year's recipient of the award. "These words and phrases describe a person who is not just an exceptional teacher and mentor, but someone who "gets it."
As a graduate teaching fellow from 2000-2006, Bergquist has taught "Retrieving and Analyzing Information," "Tools for Information Literacy" and "Seminar in Public Libraries." He earned his Ph.D. in Information and Library Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, and he has a B.A. in geography from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Middle East Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA , and an M.S.L.S. from SILS. He is also a Colonel (retired) in the U.S. Air Force.