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By: Barb Miller

For the first time ever, one college can claim the honor of having not only the nation’s top professor, but the faculty member named a state’s professor of the year as well.

Cuyahoga Community College’s Dr. Mark S. Lewine is in Washington D.C. today to receive the award as the nation’s ‘2006 Outstanding Community College Professor.’ Dr. Lewine becomes only the fourth Ohio college professor to ever be named U.S. Professor of the Year, and only the second Ohio community college professor to receive this prestigious national prize.

A second Tri-C professor is also in Washington today to receive a top honor from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Dr. Ormond Brathwaite will accept the award as the 2006 Ohio Professor of the Year. According to CASE officials, this is the first time faculty members from the same institution have won the state and national professor of the year awards in the same year.

Dr. Lewine, a professor of anthropology, sociology and urban studies, and Director of the Center for Community Research, has taught Tri-C students for 35 years. Selected by CASE from nominations submitted by institutions nationwide, U.S. Professor of the Year honorees are chosen for outstanding commitment to teaching and for their influence on teaching. The award winners receive a $5,000 prize, and speak at a luncheon in Washington after being introduced by a former student.

Dr. Brathwaite and other State Professor of the Year honorees will accept their awards in Washington today as well. Brathwaite is a chemistry professor who has played a prominent role in the Bridges to Success in the Sciences Project during his 12 years at Tri-C. He received the National Role Model Award in 2003.

“The selection of Dr. Lewine as the top community college professor in the country is a huge honor, for the professor and Tri-C,” said Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton, president of Cuyahoga Community College. “The fact we’ve been recognized as having two of the top educators in the state and the nation reflects on the overall quality of our faculty, and the first-rate education available at Tri-C.”

Board of Trustees Chair Nadine Feighan remarked that “the College’s mission statement calls for ‘high quality educational opportunities’ to be provided to our community. Here’s just another indication that we’re accomplishing that mission.”

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