MERLOT Awards: Application of MERLOT: Institutional Stewardship

The Institutional Stewardship Award is given to an individual or group to recognize efforts to promote MERLOT at an institutional level.  These models can be used to sustain support for MERLOT and that demonstrate the value of MERLOT. The recipients of the award (individual or group) will have exhibited an outstanding example of stewardship in spreading the use of MERLOT through-out the campus or system. 

Deborah Proctor - (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Deborah is the Project Director of MERLOT for the MNSCU and has been influential in recruiting significant support for MERLOT.  Currently, she serves as the e-Curriculum Director for Academic Innovations and chaired the 8th MERLOT International Conference Committee (MIC08) hosted by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities August 7-10, 2008. The success of the MIC08 conference in St. Paul can be contributed to many of the behind the scenes details that Deborah initiated. 

Ron Purser - San Francisco State University
Rassoul Yazdipour - California State University -  Fresno

The CSU Business Teaching Commons was formed in 2006, beginning as a small community of members – CSU faculty, staff, administrators - who shared a common interest in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in the business disciplines with online resources, and linking them to MERLOT. Over several years a website was developed to provide a collaborative space for CSU business faculty, which also provided ease of use for accessing MERLOT materials.