TEACHERS OF PROMISE

Spring 2013– Jenifer Wolters, Mathematics Education and Corey Wheeler, Elementary Education

Fall 2012 – Sylvia Kvacik, English Education and Jordan Evans, Elementary Education

Spring 2012 – Jacob Andres, Music Education and Shelby Babcock, Elementary Education

SCHOLAR-ATHLETES

Fall 2012– Football player, Robert Burcher-History Education, received 2012 Daktronics NAIA Football Scholar Athlete Award.

Spring 2013-Softball player, Morgan Jacobs-Elementary Education, received the Capital One Academic All-District Team Award.

ALPHA CHI

Alpha Chi is a national collegiate honor society that admits students from all academic disciplines.  Membership is by invitation only and is limited to the top ten percent of an institution’s juniors, seniors and graduate students.  Alpha Chi members have been “making scholarship effective for good” since 1922.

Fall 2011 Inductees:  Rikki Lundy - Elementary Education, Corey Wheeler - Elementary Education, and Jeni Wolters- Mathematics Education

Other Alpha Chi members in Education:  Shelby Babcock – Elementary Education, Sara Goetz – Music Education, Kathy House – Music Education, and Michelle Vought – Mathematics Education

HORIZON AWARD

The Kansas State Department of Education sponsors the Horizon Award for teachers who have demonstrated excellence during their first full year of teaching.

Spring 2012 - Josh Massey, 2009 graduate of the KWU Teacher Education Department, received the 2012 Secondary Horizon Award.