Susie Whittington is the recipient of the NACTA 2024 Murray Brown Leadership Award at the 70th Annual NACTA Conference in June. This award is meant to recognize someone with a distinguished and sustained record of NACTA leadership.
NACTA Murray Brown Award
The Murray Brown Leadership Award recognizes one member each year for a distinguished and sustained record of NACTA leadership. The award is named in honor of Dr. Murray Brown, who served as president of NACTA in 1969-1970 and as secretary-treasurer from 1972-1999. Dr. Brown received the Teacher Fellowship Award in 1972, the Distinguished Educator Award in 1978, and a Distinguished Service Award in 1999. Dr. Brown began teaching dairy science as a graduate assistant in 1953 at Texas A&M, and served for 30 years as an administrator and teacher of animal and dairy science at Sam Houston State University. The award is supported by generous donations from NACTA members and family and friends of Murray Brown following his passing in 2005.
Dr. M. Susie Whittington serves as Executive Director of Academic Enrichment and the Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP). She taught Methods of Teaching for 25 years before coming to the Office of Academic Affairs. She created and taught a university gen ed course, Toward Cultural Proficiency, and continues to teach an online Advanced Methods of Teaching course. For more than 25 years, she directed a research project, “Improving the Cognitive Capacity of Students by Fully Engaging Professors in the Teaching and Learning Process”. Dr. Whittington is the junior author of Methods of Teaching Agriculture. Her teaching has been awarded the USDA National Teaching Excellence Award. She received The Josephine Sitterle Failer Award for Outstanding Service to Students by The Ohio State University Alumni Association. She is a co-advisor to Ohio Staters, Inc. Susie was bestowed the honorific title of Distinguished Professor by her college.
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