Maria Godoy receives Campus Award for Excellence in Instruction
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign each year presents Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction to exceptional faculty and staff members, graduate teaching assistants and advisors campuswide. The recipients were honored at a March 25 ceremony.
Awardees are cited for sustained excellence and innovation in undergraduate and graduate teaching, undergraduate and graduate advising and mentoring, online teaching and research guidance. The Office of the Provost sponsors the awards.
Animal Sciences professor Maria Cattai de Godoy received a Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching. This award recognizes contributions to graduate or professional learners beyond classroom instruction.
Godoy is a trailblazer in developing online offerings of successful in-person courses. She applies her creativity, teaching and research experiences to bring together students, encouraging in-depth dialogues through live sessions and student discussion board assignments. She believes it’s important to not only teach students how to be competent scholars and professionals, but also how to be good citizens. Using real-world exercises, she shows them how to apply their knowledge to improve the society that they live in.
Read more and see the full list of award winners from the Illinois News Bureau.