• Award History
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The winners of the Ohio Valley Conference’s Outstanding Faculty Commitment to Student Success Awards have been announced.
The awards were created in 2023 by the Provosts from each OVC member institution to recognize outstanding faculty at each OVC member institution. The recipients were recently announced at the 2024 OVC Basketball Championship, and award will be sent to each school so the winners can be honored on their own campus.
Each OVC member institution had the opportunity to nominate a faculty member with the rank of associate or full-time professor who have been employed at the institution for at least five years.
The criteria included impacts of students, contributions made to the department, university and curriculum development, consistent professional development as well as community involvement and institutional service.
This year’s recipients are:
University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Dr. Joe Felan, Associate Professor of Management, Marketing, and Technology
Eastern Illinois University: Dr. Ashley Gard, Instructor of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation
Lindenwood University: Dr. Ricardo Delgado, Professor, Chemistry
Morehead State University: Dr. Steve Chen, Professor of Business Administration
Southeast Missouri State University: Dr. Adam Criblez, Professor of History
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Dr. Lindsay Ross-Stewart, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Health
University of Southern Indiana: Joshua N. Wildeman, Instructor, Kinesiology and Sport Department
Tennessee State University: Dr. Jason Smith, Interim Department Chair, Human Performance and Sports Science
Tennessee Technological University: Dr. Susan G. Wells, Lecturer, Decision Sciences & Management
University of Tennessee at Martin: Dr. Angie MacKewn, Professor of Psychology
Western Illinois University: Janice Gates, Senior Instructor in the School of Management and Marketing