A Ball State University professor received an award Monday thanks, in part, to student nominations.
Hans Kellogg, assistant professor from the Department of Industry and Technology, has been chosen as the recipient of the Print and Graphic Scholarship Foundation's Educator of the Year award. This award is given only through nominations made on the recipient's behalf.
Students initiated the nominations, but there were also letters of recommendation given from the Department of Technology chair, as well as Kellogg's current and previous colleagues.
Kellogg, who is in charge of graphic arts management, has offered many hands-on learning opportunities in his classes, such as the annual Drawn to Reading program, he said. This program offers students a chance to travel to a local elementary school and teach the children basics about the printing process and industry. Ball State students take bookmark designs from the elementary students and have them produced and printed. Since the program began in 2002, Drawn to Reading has provided more than 250,000 bookmarks to the state library in Indianapolis, Kellogg said. This project was awarded the Electronic Document Systems Foundation's Excellence in Education award in 2005.
"This whole process has been amazing," Kellogg said about the award. "When I was first approached with this idea I was proud of the fact that my students wanted to nominate me. To me, that was reward enough. The fact that your own students feel you are doing a good job make teaching all that more rewarding."
The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation, which presented Kellogg with the award, is dedicated to providing scholarships for students entering educational programs in graphic communications, according to the foundation's Web site. For the 2007-2008 school year, PGSF provided $450,000 in scholarships for 230 students in 84 different graphic communications programs at the college and university level.
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