ARC Excellence Award – Accessibility Resource Center

The ARC Excellence Award recognizes instructional staff members who demonstrate exemplary service to ARC students and staff. These instructors go above and beyond what is required to make courses accessible, maintain professionalism while interacting with ARC students and ARC staff, exercise sensitivity to a diverse student population, integrate or apply universal design principles into instruction or service delivery, and more.

Nominations for the 2022-2023 academic year are now closed. If someone you know deserves this recognition, please consider nominating them next year. And bookmark this page for information on the 2023-2024 academic year awards!

2023 Awardees will be honored in September 15, 2023.

2022 ARC Excellence Award Recipients

Shahla Anders	College of Health Sciences
Sonia Bardy	Biological Sciences
Rachel Bloom-Pojar	English
Mary Louise Buley-Meissner	English
Chi Cho	College of Health Sciences
Joshua Driscoll	Anthropology
Krista Grensavitch	Women’s and Gender Studies
Julie Kaiser	English
Joseph Kilroy	College of General Studies
Matthew Knachel	Philosophy
Charlotte Lettelier	English
Renee Reckelberg	College of Health Sciences
Elizabeth Rex	Peck School of the Arts
Ermitte Saint-Jacques	African & African Diaspora Studies
Shinji Takahashi	Foreign Languages and Literature

Past Award Recipients

Instructor:	Department:
Monna Arvinen-Barrow	College of Health Sciences
Rachel Baum	College of Letters & Science-Foreign Languages & Literatures
Kimberly Beckmann	Peck School of the Arts
Lisa Berger	Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Marcus Britton	College of Letters & Science-Sociology
Lisa Cottingham	Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Amy Decker	Peck School of the Arts
Royce Earnest	School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Ronald Gulotta	College of General Studies-Social Sciences & Business, Sociology
Daniel Hackbarth	School of Letters & Science-Mathematical Sciences
Kerry Hansen	College of General Studies Student Affairs, TRIO Student Support Services
Jennifer Kahn-Pettigrew	Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Amanda Neal	College of Letters & Science-Mathematical Studies
Mark Netzloff	College of Letters & Science-English
Joseph O’Halloran	College of Letters & Science-Physics
Dimitri Topitzes	Helen Bader School of Social Welfare

Instructor:	Department:
Rachel Baum	Center for Jewish Studies
Anne Bonds	College of Letters and Science
Christine Carlson	College of Letters and Science
Kyle Ebersole	College of Health Sciences
Angel Hessel	School of Education
Gabriel Lopez Jauregi	School of Education
Jamie Kovtun	Financial Aid
Molly Ubbesen	College of Letters and Science
Haley Zangl	University Housing

Instructor:	Department:
Dylan Barth	Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Kari Dawson	University Housing
Erma Green	Curriculum and Instruction
Amy Mangrich	Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Instructor:	Department:
Matthew Hoeppner	Mathematical Sciences
Julie Kailin	School of Education
Heather Owen	Biological Sciences
Lyndsay Jo Smanz	Information Studies
James Tasse	Theatre

Instructor:	Department:
Lillian Folk	Health Informatics and Administration
Adam Hudson	Information Studies
Leah Rineck	Mathematical Sciences
Sarah Ruder	University Relations
Jeb Willenbring	Mathematical Sciences

Instructor:	Department:
Paul Lyman	Physics
Lindsay Timmerman	Communication
Beth Traylor	Library

Instructor:	Department:
Alan Schwabacher	Chemistry
Carol Hirschmugl	Electrical Engineer
Roger Smith	Occupational Science
Gina Szabelwski	Geoscience
Robert Wood	Physics

Instructor:	Department:
Raymond Fleming	Psych
Lanlan Han	Chemistry/ Biochemistry
Nicole Heinen	PASS
Gloria Miller	Business Management
Jude Rathburn	Business
Jose Torres	Social Work
Krislyn World	PSOA Dance

Instructor:	Department:
Richard Monti	FLL/ Latin
Ann Williams	Business/ Marketing
Jeanne Wagner	Social Work
Margaret Kipp	SOIS
Susan Lima	Psych
Marion Angeloff	ARC

Instructor:	Department:
Jonathan Hanes	Research
Terrance Newell	SOIS
Sueyon Seo	Arab & Asian
Jessica Merez	PSOA
Mark Mantyh	Sociology

Instructor:	Department:
Jim Burmeister	Assistant Dean PSOA
Fred Helmstetter	Psychology
Jenny Wanasek	Theatre
Janine Kwapis	Psychology
Goda Masri	International Education

Instructor:	Department:
Lauren Williams	Mathematical Sciences
Veronica Luncback	FLL/ German
Christine Conelea	Psychology
Gina Seegers- Szablewski	Geoscience

Instructor:	Department:
Robert Balmer	Mathematical Engineering
Michael Coon	Economics
Magaly Zeise	Spanish & Portuguese
Kevin Jahnke	UITS/Classroom Support
Paul Gunderson, Dave Nowak	UITS

Instructor:	Department:
Michael Hero	Mathematical Science
Ryan Lefeber	Secretary of University
Kimberly Cosier	Art
Christopher Sears	Mathematics
David Pate	Social Work

Instructor:	Department:
Min Chen	N/A
Richard Marcus	Finance
Meredith Reitman	Geography
Deborah Renard	Educational Psychology

Instructor:	Department:
Charles Kraus	Art
Beverly Belfer	Music
Gloria Freschl	Chemistry
Robyn Ridley	Psychology

Instructor:	Department:
James Tasse	Theatre
Katy Mollerud	Deans Office
LeeAnn Garrison	Art
Mary Randolph-Frye	Psychology
Catherine Kaye	English as Second Language
Claudia Barreto	Biological Science

Instructor:	Department:
Jayson Rock	Electrical Engineering
Erika Sander	Human Movement Science
Kamil Tachmiscioglu	Economics
Ahmed Mbalia	Africology

Instructor:	Department:
Linda Krause	Architecture
Harold Hiken	Mathematics
Michelle Harrell Washington	Library
Judith Rozie-Battle	Social Work
Michael Fountain	French, Italian, Comp Lit

Instructor:	Department:
Helena Pycior	History
Joseph Smith	Administration
Richard Blau	Film
Lenard Levine	Electrical Engineering
John Boatman	Ethnic Program Studies
Michael Medora	Instructional Services

Instructor:	Department:
Robert Wood	Physics
Kelly Kohlmetz	Eng & Math Science
Sally Long	Biological Science
Leslie Loomis Vansen	Art

Instructor:	Department:
Corliss Philabaum	PSOA Theater
Theresa Valentino	Art
Renee Gratz	Healthcare
Brook Burnette-Zacher	History