2007 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
The winners of the 2007 Carl F. Wittke Award were David Pearson, Accountancy, and Deepak Sarma, Religious Studies. The two outstanding faculty members received their awards during the Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony at Commencement on May 20, 2007, at the Veale Convocation and Recreation Center.
View the list of 2007 Wittke Award nominees.
Deepak Sarma
Deepak Sarma's nominator was impressed with his ability to create an engaging learning environment for his students. "I was not entirely sure how "Hinduism" would be an engaging SAGES class, but it was one of the few options left when I was scheduling," his nominator writes. "But thanks to the constant energy, good humor, and pure rigorous intellectualism of Professor Sarma, it became one of my favorite classes of all time. Our written assignments were interesting, which is something that I find rarely happens; they required actual thought instead of mere research."
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David Pearson
David Pearson's nominator offers a glimpse of Professor Pearson's passion for teaching. "Professor Pearson has had every single accounting major for the past four years (maybe a little bit longer)," his nominator writes. "He is well known (in the Business School) for his hard class(es), demanding homework, tough exams, and transparent teaching. He comes to the academic arena with a lifetime of experiences and is always open to share real life applications of what he is instructing... Everyone who has had him and goes out into the working world attests that what they learned in his classes is invaluable. The specific details might not be memorable but the skills of problem solving and attempting problems that at first look impossible is what counts."
Read more about David Pearson.