{"id":245,"date":"2008-01-17T10:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/17\/baylors-cherry-award-uniquely-rewards-great-professors\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T16:01:50","slug":"baylors-cherry-award-uniquely-rewards-great-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/baylors-cherry-award-uniquely-rewards-great-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor’s Cherry Award uniquely rewards great professors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StephenDavis\"<\/a>Did you know that Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching<\/a> comes with the single largest monetary reward — $200,000 — of any national teaching award?<\/p>\n

Dr. Stephen D. Davis, a biology professor at Pepperdine, was yesterday named the 2008 Cherry Award winner<\/a>. He will spend this fall teaching in residence at Baylor.<\/p>\n

In line with its long history of having professors who are excellent teachers, Baylor is the only college or university in the country to present a national teaching award to an individual for exceptional teaching. Baylor students in philosophy and music have benefitted in recent years from the tutelage of Cherry Award winners Eleonore Stump<\/a> and Anton Armstrong<\/a> (who was profiled in this Baylor Magazine<\/em> feature<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Davis spoke highly of the award<\/a> to the Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em>, noting that “I view myself, really, as a teacher. … [The award] gives tribute to teaching and, more significantly than that, to the concept of the integration of teaching and research.”<\/p>\n

In addition to the reward Davis will receive, $25,000 will go to his home department at Pepperdine. The other two finalists (Penn State’s Dr. George E. Andrews and Indiana-Bloomington’s Rudy Pozzatti) will each receive $15,000, while their home departments will receive $10,000 each for the development of teaching skills.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Dr. Davis, and a posthumous sic \u2019em to alumnus Robert Foster Cherry for his estate gift which allows Baylor to reward and bring in such professors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching comes with the single largest monetary reward — $200,000 — of any national teaching award? Dr. Stephen D. Davis, a biology professor at Pepperdine, was yesterday named the 2008 Cherry Award winner. He will spend this fall teaching in residence at Baylor. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}