Faculty Advisor of the Year Award

Title: AITP Faculty Advisor of the Year Award

Purpose: AITP is fortunate to have talented educators serve as advisors to AITP's student chapters   all over the country. They willingly donate many hours to assure that their students receive a broader education than they receive in the classroom alone. AITP annually recognizes an advisor who has exemplified the highest ideals of his/her profession.

Criteria:

• AITP student chapter must have earned SCOPA for the previous two years

• The faculty advisor must have served a minimum of two years

• The faculty advisor must have demonstrated a desire to enhance the professional development  of the students in his/her charge. Examples of this would be to regularly take students to IT professional functions, meetings & conferences, encourage students to compete in local, regional and national contest events.

Schedule:

• The student chapter president prepares a letter of recommendation and forwards it with all supporting materials to the president of their sponsoring AITP professional chapter by March 1st.

• The sponsoring parent chapter verifies that SCOPA was achieved and also writes a letter of recommendation. Mail the entire package to AITP-HQ by March 10th (including the SCOPA paperwork)

• The AITP student awards committee will review all submitted materials and make their selection.

• The award will be presented during the awards banquet at the upcoming AITP National Collegiate Conference

Faculty Advisor Inquiries and/or completed packets should be directed to the AITP Student Awards Committee Chair by emailing studentawards@aitp.org.

Past Winners:

• 2012-2013 Dr. S.E. Kruck, James Madison University
• 2011-2012 Vicki Hampton, Eastern Illinois University
• 2010-2011 Dr. Alex Citurs, Eastern Connecticut State University
• 2009-2010 Brenda Wilz, Fox Valley Technical College
• 2008-2009 Dr. Scott Hunsinger (Appalachian State Univ) & Kevin Jetton (Texas State Univ)

• 2007-2008 *not awarded*

• 2006-2007 Dawn Pantaleo, Kalamazoo Valley Community College

• 2005-2006 *not awarded*

• 2004-2005 *not awarded*

• 2003-2004 *not awarded*

• 2002-2003 Jim Cappell, Ph.D., Central Michigan University

• 2001-2002 Barbara Russell, Northwestern State University

• 2000-2001 Robert Brzycki, Milwaukee Area Technical College -West Campus

• 1999-2000 Yvonne Antonucci, Ph.D., Widener University

• 1998-1999 George Fowler, Ph.D., Texas A&M University

• 1997-1998 Larry Cornwell, Ph.D. , Bradley University

• 1996-1997 Teresa Hickerson, Cameron University

• 1995-1996 Ernest Nolan, University of Southern Indiana

• 1994-1995 Brian Reithel, Ph.D., University of Mississippi