Labette Community College announced Thursday, April 29, 2010 that Russell Head, Recording Arts Instructor, was named the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Award Recipient. The Distinguished Faculty Award is presented annually. Faculty members must be nominated by students or LCC employees to be considered by the selection committee. Criteria for the award include teaching effectiveness, college service, student involvement, professional development and community service. All full-time faculty who have completed at least four years of full-time teaching at LCC are eligible to be nominated.

Head was honored at a reception in the Cardinal Café on Thursday afternoon. This award ceremony is to pay tribute to one instructor’s contribution to the central mission of the college- to provide quality learning opportunities to students of LCC. It was developed to allow the college to publicly recognize and reward an instructor who has performed in an exemplary manner.

Many anonymous student comments from the Distinguished Faculty Award Nominations were read at the reception. These student comments included:

 “This instructor is very deserving of this honor.  He has loads of knowledge and experience in the subject area and is extremely personable.  I’ve never had an instructor that cared as much about their students.  Mr. Head encourages us to ask questions and always spends time answering them thoroughly and helping us out in any way.”

“This instructor is always there for the students and is more than willing to help them out in any way possible.  He arranges real life situations in the community for the students to apply the concepts they are learning in class.  The instructor goes out of his way to make a student feel important.”

 “I’ve learned more from this instructor in these past two years than I have ever learned from anyone.  Mr. Head is always willing to lend a hand, and will go out of his way for anybody with a positive attitude.  I look forward to every single day I have class with him because it feels like I’m not even in class.  Not only has Mr. Head influenced my creativity, but has also influenced me as a person and my outlook on life in general.”

For more information regarding the Distinguished Faculty Award or the 2010 recipient, Russ Head, please contact the Academic Affairs office at 1-888-LABETTE.