Dr. Donna Dufner receives OTICA award

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 09:07

Dr. Donna Dufner, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis in the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Dr. Dufner exemplifies the qualities of an exceptional university teacher with her superior academic knowledge, innovative teaching methods, caring attitude toward her students and scholarly activity. She is an imaginative, devoted and resourceful teacher committed to her students and her community. But she is perhaps most recognized for exploring new and impressive service learning courses, ways to integrate community service into valuable learning experiences for her students. For example, Dufner created an Information Science and Quantitative Analysis course that brings UNO students to south Omaha to help small business entrepreneurs improve their information management and marketing skills. In another educational experience, Dufner developed a course in which her students teach basic literacy skills to inmates at the Douglas County Correctional Facility. A talented and innovative teacher, she inspires her students to be better scholars but also better human beings and citizens of Omaha.

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