Date Posted/Updated: May 2, 2007

Dr. Gloria Boutte received top award at the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Awards Banquet

Columbia, SC- Dr. Gloria Boutte recently received one of the top awards at the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Awards Banquet. The award was created to honor those faculty members from our member colleges who demonstrate the highest standards of teaching methods that encourage students to strive for excellence in their studies and pursuits.  The award is given to one faculty member at each of the twenty member colleges and universities.  Dr. Boutte was chosen by Benedict College according to rigorous criteria set.  Each recipient will receive of a certificate and a grant for $3,000 to be used for professional development opportunities.   

Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte, Professor of Education at Benedict College, has been a faculty member at Benedict since 2001. Dr. Boutte is highly regarded for her teaching and research not only at Benedict College, but nationally as well. Dr. Boutte initiates, funds, and directs the Center of Excellence for the Education and Equity of African American Students.

The Benedict College Center of Excellence has become pivotal in producing materials and providing other supportive resources for educators and academics to better understand education and African American communities. Dr. Boutte's knowledge extends far beyond the foregone to embrace early childhood education as a whole. She understands and appreciates the foundations of early childhood education as grounded in a developmental perspective as well as in critical feminist and socio-cultural views that push thinking in new directions. She is committed to a high level of scholarly activity including multiple funded projects as well as to teaching and service that make a difference in the lives of educators, families, and children. She has extensive experience not only in higher education but as teacher of young children.

Dr. Boutte's publications are well known in the field of multicultural education. She publishes widely in early childhood and other scholarly journals. Reading Dr. Boutte's work, teachers begin to consider cross cultural experience in new ways and they reach deeper understandings of learning and life from multiple points of view. This experience, in turn, impacts their teaching of children in important ways.

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