Colorado Christian University:

Dear James, 

I just wanted to let you know that your excellent teaching has yet again come to my attention. Congratulations on a great job teaching ENT270A this fall! You’ve made my “un-official” Official Dean’s Gold Star List for Teaching Excellence! 

God’s name is honored by your work. 

Thank you for blessing our students and CCU,

Dr. Mellani Day

Director, College of Adult and Graduate Studies

School of Business and Technology

Colorado Christian University

 

 

Dear Jim: 

I just wanted to let you know that your excellent teaching has come to my attention!!  Congratulations on a great job on your MIT490 class this Spring!  You’ve made my “un-official” Official Dean’s Gold Star List for Teaching Excellence! 

God’s name is honored by your work. 

Thank you for blessing our students and CCU, 

Dr. Mellani Day

Director, College of Adult and Graduate Studies

School of Business and Technology

Colorado Christian University

 

 

Dear James, 

Thank you for teaching the College of Adult and Graduate Studies.  We appreciate the passion and heart you have for our students. You are a blessing to us and we want you to know how much we appreciate you. 

Thank you for your continued service to the university and our students-- 

CAGS Faculty Development Team

 

Dear James,

I wanted to send you a sincere and heartfelt “thank you” for your hard work over the last five (or ten) weeks.  I know the transition to Blackboard wasn’t without its frustrations but, as always, you handled things with grace and a generous spirit.  We are blessed to have the opportunity to work with you and we hope that Blackboard will be an ever-improving tool to help our students achieve their academic and spiritual goals.

Blessings for your summer,

Kristen Jensen Wall

Director of Faculty Development

College of Adult and Graduate Studies

Colorado Christian University

 

Jim: 

I wanted to commend you on the level of participation, clear guidelines and expectations, and the helpful feedback you provide to our students.  Thanks for holding our students to a high level of academic accountability! 

Blessings, 

Kristen 

Kristen Jensen Wall

Director of Faculty Development

College of Adult and Graduate Studies

Colorado Christian University

 

Wow!  Thank you for your effort.  You challenged and empowered the students and I thank you for you work! 

Thanks, 

Tim Mills

Coordinator of New Faculty Programs

Faculty Development

College of Adult and Graduate Studies

Colorado Christian University

 

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Ed Schlichenmayer, CSP
Director Auraria Book Center

Auraria Higher Education Complex
Thank You! for all your dedicated efforts towards beta testing the CourseWeb platform. Your on-going feedback, professional guidance, and devoted use played an important role in making CourseWeb a viable, functional, and practical technology application for higher education. More important than all of that, I believe it has been your leadership and dynamic relationship with students that have demonstrated just how valuable a tool it can be to both students and faculty.
As a faculty member, it should be pleasing to know that you created such a positive experience for your students, and I want you to know that I am appreciative and proud of the fact that I could work with you on this project.
On behalf of the Book Center and of the many individuals associated with CourseWeb, I hope you will accept our sincerest gratitude for the hard work, dedicated efforts, and leadership you unselfishly gave to make CourseWeb a success. THANK YOU!
 

 

Susan Ambrosius
Director of Faculty Development
Denver Technical College
We consider Jim to be a tremendous asset...one of those rare instructors who is able to maintain a balance between having high, but reasonable expectations of his students and is able to motivate them to do their best.
Student comments include:
"Every class with Jim is uplifting and exciting."
"Best instructor DTC ever had!"
"...versatile, interactive, professional, but most of all concerned about every one of his students."
"Best DTC instructor! I enjoy how he teaches and makes me excited and motivated...and for helping think 'out of the box'. "


Barbara Bates

Faculty
Denver Technical College
Thank you for letting me tape your class. You are a master teacher.
What is interesting is that you have figured all this out yourself, without any teacher training. Yet you include all the techniques we learn in graduate school. AWESOME!


Jana Mathieson
Manager of Advising and Tutoring
Denver Technical College
You attend advisor training (unlike other advisors) and have always been extremely pleasant and professional...you have always gone out of your way to assist any and all students regardless of their need...If only more were like you.


John P. Cochran
Interim Dean School of Business
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Congratulations on your 4.29 rating on a 5 point scale, for teaching effectiveness for an on-line course. On-line ratings are typically lower across the college relative to on campus student evaluations.
Your student ratings indicate a commitment to students and quality on-line course delivery.
 

R. Michael Brown,

Dean of School of Business
Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD), School of Business
It is with great pride, and a goodly amount of awe, that I write this note of congratulations on your student evaluations...We appreciate your fine work, as do our students!
I was pleased to note that you received a mean score well above the average...you should feel a great deal of pride in this accomplishment!
You are to be commended on your performance in the classroom, and for your student recognition of a job well done.


Paul Ryan, Ph.D.,

Provost
Nasson University, Mobile, AL
The University of the United States, Mobile, AL
We are privileged to have Professor Ivey associated with our worldwide distance learning degree programs...his distinguished academic and professional career experience will contribute greatly to the universities' curriculum and program development.


Charles Vitaska, Ph.D.,

Chair Marketing Department
Metropolitan State College of Denver

...an outstanding teacher...evaluations are consistently in the 6.5 range on a 7-point scale...highest evaluation I have received for a part-time instructor...motivating, demanding, informative, well prepared, highly effective...a real passion for teaching...dedicated professional...student recruitment...imaginative, a critical thinker, resourceful...passion for working with students...highly conscientious, diligent, dependable...

 

Bruce C. Perryman, Ph.D.,

Dean Business & Governmental Studies
Community College of Denver
...an outstanding teacher ... excellent evaluations ... excellent knowledge ... excellent experiential background ... brings it all together in the classroom ... a natural teacher ... a very fine person with a strong positive commitment to improving our human condition ... an asset.
 

Les Moroye,

Division Chair, Business Department
Community College of Aurora
...a tremendous asset to our organization ... academic advising, evaluation, instruction, recruitment ... professionalism ...education ... genuine concern and passion for education and our diverse student population ... extremely creative, innovative, personable and responsible ... exemplary creditability and integrity ... energetic ... enthusiastic ... unique ... a true leader.
 

Andres Salazar,

Director Hispanic Entrepreneur Program
Community College of Denver
...a total professional ... goes the extra step with students and colleagues ... committed to diversity and creativity ... style of instruction transcends ethnic differences ... draws out the best in students ... role model ... a unique professional and humanitarian.
 

Beth Brubaker,

Coordinator Business & Industry Services
Community College of Denver
...highly organized, professional and extremely sensitive to student needs ... highest ratings awarded an instructor out of the entire faculty .. .encourages students to learn ... very enthusiastic ... excellent ... strong presentation skills ... ability to work well with a diverse audience ... gift of making educational material come alive, take on relevance ... makes the education process fun and exciting ... has stepped into challenging situations in off-campus settings and smoothed conflicts with calm professionalism.
 

Jackie King,

Instructional Support Services Manager,

Center for Persons with Disabilities
Community College of Denver
...always available ... willing to accommodate whatever needs ... pleasant, helpful, genuinely caring ... very kind, caring advisor who gives freely of himself ... always seems to go that extra mile and make connections ... very dedicated ... watches for opportunities to teach students how to function in a college setting ... recommend James for any position that involves working with a diverse group of people ... he seems comfortable with our population: 60% minority, 10% disabled, 80% economically disadvantaged ... he just fits in.
 

Elaine Ryan,

Academic Advisor
Community College of Denver
...a very accomplished teacher and professional ... innovative, responsive to student's needs and a master at eliciting student participation ... meets students' varied learning styles and dissimilar cultural backgrounds ... strong background in the business world ... successful entrepreneur ... a conscientious advisor ... an outstanding instructor ... dedicated employee.
 

Dianne Cyr,

Coordinator, Teaching/Learning Center
Community College of Denver
...student-centered approach to education ... demonstrates a high degree of enthusiasm and a commitment to relevance and application in his curriculum design and delivery ... has modeled professional behavior ... testimony to a strong desire to continue to learn, improve and contribute ... a hard-working educator ... open to new ideas ... committed to education and focuses on student learning as his top priority.
 

Carolyn Berkley Counihan,

Director, Non-Traditional Learning Programs
Community College of Denver
...has taught homestudy, telecourses, distance learning, traditional classroom ... a particularly helpful and nurturing instructor ... competent and professional ... a valuable asset to our division ... always timely in our deadlines ... able to translate this interest into an effective teaching style that has suited our Continuing Education students well.

June Sheppard,

Coordinator, Guided Independent Studies
Community College of Denver

...meets and surpasses expectations in his commitment to our students-at-a-distance ... theory and practical application are an integral part of his instruction ... always brings enthusiasm, energy and imagination to the entire learning process ... has developed breadth and depth in distance learning with his instructional experience and extensive research.