LEAP Indiana recently honored instructors from institutions across the state as winners of the Annual Teaching Awards and Paragon Award. In addition to these prestigious awards, each winner receives $1,000.
The LEAP Indiana Paragon Award was given to Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Chancellor’s Professor of English, IU Bicentennial Professor (2019-2021), Affiliate Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Office of Student Research at Indiana University Columbus.
The LEAP Indiana Paragon Award honors the sustained professional achievement of an individual who embodies LEAP Indiana’s mission and vision as a teacher or as a teaching and learning advocate over a period of years.
Upon learning that she won the LEAP Indiana Paragon Award, Goodspeed Chadwick said, “My heart is so full: to have my teaching recognized in this way—the pursuit that I care about so passionately and that I believe is a social justice endeavor, a way to make our students’ world better, their horizons broader and higher, as well as to improve and enhance the communities in which we all live and work—means more to me than I can say.”
