Dr. Thomas Tudor, professor of management in UALR’s College of Business, won the $10,000 Ted and Virginia Bailey Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching Friday night at the University’s 22^nd Annual Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony.

Dr. Jeffery Walker, professor of criminal justice in the College of Professional Studies, won the $5,000 University Faculty Excellence award for Research sponsored by PepsiAmericas.

Professor Jeanne Rollberg, associate professor of journalism in the School of Mass Communications in the College of Professional Studies, won the $5,000 University Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service sponsored by Bank of America.

The awards were announced at the annual banquet – UALR’s premier event honoring the University’s outstanding faculty – in the Donaghey Student Center’s Ledbetter Hall.

Awards of $1,000 each went to 19 faculty members, including the three big winners, all of whom had previously been selected by their peers as college-level winners for excellence in teaching, research, and public service.

A national panel of judges selected the top three recipients.

Tudor is known for his individual concern with students and engaging them through skits, role-play, and video. Students are not just a number in Tudor’s classroom. It’s important to him to learn student names and for students to know he cares about them and their education.

Students find his concern refreshing. Tudor’s teaching and research focus on Human Resource Management, and he is constantly updating his knowledge in the areas of workplace religious accommodation issues, employment discrimination, and sexual harassment.

Tudor’s research has helped improve his teaching and foster better relationships with students from different religious backgrounds and cultures.

Walker’s criminal justice research runs the gamut from juvenile hooligans to international terrorism.

His body of research has cast him in the national spotlight as an expert in the practical and policy aspect of criminal behavior. He has published 27 peer-reviewed articles in top-ranking journals, 28 book chapters and five books, two of which are in the eighth edition.

After publishing his research on sex offenders, Walker received countless invitations from around the nation to share his research. He also testified before the Kansas legislature to help establish effective sex offender policies in the state.

Colleagues say Jeanne Rollberg’s service is uniquely relevant to a metropolitan campus. She was the first UALR professor to serve at the Clinton School of Public Service where she helped shape a public image for the school, conducted market research to help broaden the school’s outreach, edited the newsletter, and played a key role in the admissions process.

On campus, she is credited with overseeing the initial phase of the merger of the Journalism Department and the Department of Radio, Television and Film that established the comprehensive School of Mass Communication. Rollberg also assisted the Office of Development in setting up a scholarship for minority students funded by KTHV-TV and Hola! Arkansas.

A panel of six judges selected the three top winners from the college levels. They are:

• James Chen, dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.
• Thomas Krepel, the 13^th president of Fairmont State University and former president of Chadron State College in Nebraska.
• William M. Plater, director of international community development at Indiana University Purdue-University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
• William Radke, provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Central Oklahoma.
• Fred J. Taylor, chancellor and professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
• Gail Wells, vice president for academic affairs and provost at Northern Kentucky University.

The 2010 college-level winners in all categories were:

Public Service:

• Joe Felan, associate professor of management, College of Business.
• Charles W. Goldner, dean emeritus and professor of law, William H. Bowen School of Law.
• Jacek Lubecki, associate professor of political science and coordinator of the International Studies and Middle Eastern programs, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
• Carolyn Pearson, professor of educational leadership and coordinator of Educational Foundations, College of Education.
• Bennie Prince, instructor of heath sciences, College of Science and Mathematics.
• Jeanne Rollberg, associate professor of journalism in the School of Mass communication, College of Professional Studies.

Research:

• Robert Corwyn, assistant professor of psychology, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
• Michael Flannery, professor of law, William H. Bowen School of Law.
• Lawrence Powell, associate professor of economics and finance, College of Business.
• Gary Szirony, assistant professor of rehabilitation counseling, College of Education.
• Fusheng Tang, assistant professor of biology, College of Science and Mathematics.
• Jeffery T. Walker, professor of criminal justice and graduate coordinator, College of Professional Studies.
• Kinji Yoshigoe, assistant professor of computer science, Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology.

Teaching:

• Joseph D. Giammo, assistant professor of political science, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
• Timothy Edwards, associate professor of journalism, School of Mass Communication, College of Professional Studies.
• Joshua M. Silverstein, assistant professor of law, William H. Bowen School of Law.
• Linda Stauffer, assistant professor, Department of Counseling, Adult, and Rehabilitation Education; College of Education.
• Robert C. Steinmeier, associate professor of chemistry, College of Science and Mathematics.
• Thomas Tudor, professor of management, College of Business.