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Edison Community College Professors Rachael Detraz (left) and Sarah
Hein honored with
Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from SOCHE.
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Edison Faculty
Honored with Excellence in Teaching Awards
Edison Community College faculty members Rachel Detraz and Sarah Hein
recently received the 2014 Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from
the Southwestern Ohio Council for High Education (SOCHE). Detraz and
Hein were honored at Faculty Excellence banquet on Friday, November 14,
2014 at Wright State University.
Each year SOCHE hosts a faculty awards banquet honoring excellence in
teaching at member institutions. Edison nominated award winners based
on the institution’s criteria, with special consideration of
demonstrated excellence and awards received throughout the past
academic year. Edison faculty members joined colleagues from ten of
SOCHE’s twenty member institutions honored at the banquet including
those from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wittenberg
University, Wright State University and others.
“The SOCHE Excellence in Teaching Awards are one of the great ways that
we can honor our faculty for the work that they do in the classroom
every day,” said Naomi Louis, Dean of Arts and Sciences. “Both Rachael
and Sarah have shown their commitment to the students and to providing
an excellent learning experience. We are fortunate to have them as a
part of our faculty at Edison and we are delighted they have received
this award.”
Rachael Detraz, Associate Professor of Biology, has a great passion for
teaching biology and relates well to her students. She challenges them
to dig deeper than the surface and to find what is relevant to their
lives. In addition to instructing, Detraz is actively involved in
updating and maintaining Edison’s online biology courses and seeks to
provide students with a rewarding and valuable online experience. As
the coordinator of biology and chemistry, she provides a commitment to
excellence in teaching from others as well.
Sarah Hein, Associate Professor of Sociology, shows great enthusiasm
toward her students and her specialty area of sociology. She has an
amazing ability to encourage students to investigate topics of interest
and to participate in valuable discussions, fostering significant
growth by the end of the class. Hein is always looking for
opportunities for her students to experience the world, bringing
speakers to campus who have been in historic social situations and
describing first-hand what it was like to be there.
Formed in 1967, SOCHE is a regional consortium of 20 colleges and
universities in southwest Ohio. SOCHE is the collaborative
infrastructure for higher education, helping colleges and universities
transform their communities and economies through the education,
employment, and engagement of more than 120,000 students in southwest
Ohio. For more information about SOCHE visit www.soche.org.
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