The 2018 Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Service Learning goes to Dr. Laurel Hitchcock, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work.

Dr. Hitchcock deservedly receives this award for:

• She has worked to incorporate service learning activities for the online and face to face courses in her area to enrich the experience of her social work students.
• She organizes activities within the service learning opportunities to help her students reach out to the community and to help her students experience authentic social work challenges as part of their studies.
• She also works to assist other faculty in her department to have the same activities and online resources to be successful in their sections as well.
• She has collaborated with people across campus to gather the most effective resources for her students.