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Associate Professor Tema Milstein has been named Presidential Teaching Fellow at the University of New Mexico. The lifetime achievement award is the highest teaching recognition for tenured faculty at the state’s flagship university. Milstein received the award based on her teaching in environmental, ecocultural, and intercultural communication, and her interdisciplinary transformative pedagogy model of the inside-out classroom. Previous to this award, Milstein received the pretenure Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award at UNM. She will serve the university as Fellow through 2017, and retain the title afterward. As Fellow, Milstein is responsible for ensuring teaching excellence by sharing her expertise with the university community. You can hear a public radio story on Tema's acceptance speech and also listen to her speech here.

Additional Reading:

Article in the Lobo:
http://www.dailylobo.com/article/2015/04/4-15-presidential-teaching-fellowship 

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