November 14, 2000
UAS Faculty Member Honored as Alaska Professor of the Year

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education today named Chuck Craig, University of Alaska Southeast assistant professor, Alaska Professor of the Year.

Craig was one of 47 state winners announced today by the Carnegie Foundation.
Nominees for the Professor of the Year award were evaluated in four areas: 1) impact on and involvement with undergraduate students; 2) scholarly approach to teaching; 3) contributions to undergraduate education, and 4) support from colleagues and students.

UAS Assistant Dean Gary Bowen nominated Craig. "Chuck is very hardworking, very committed, very intelligent, and very deserving." Bowen said, "I know we have many, many good faculty at UAS but you'll see by the references that others have given Chuck, including the former dean of engineering at the Naval Academy, that this guy really contributes a tremendous amount to this university. I'm just delighted there is a means to recognize it."

Nominees had to submit letters from the community, students, and associates and then write a dissertation on their philosophies, teaching experience and background.

Of receiving the honor, Craig said, "It's nice some of the light would shine here on the university in Southeast. It's well deserved. Having students that are enthusiastic and exciting makes the job easier."

Although he has won the Alaska Professor of the Year award, Craig said he wasn't going to change much. "I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing just about the way I've been doing it."

Craig has taught diesel and hydraulics at the UAS Juneau campus for six years. Prior to that he worked at NC Machinery as a manager and mechanic. He has nearly three decades of work in the diesel engine area.

More award information is available at www.case.org/awards/poy/default.htm