SUNY Delhi Adjunct Instructor Amie Mansfield honored with Chancellor's Award for Excellence

DELHI, NY (02/27/2015)(readMedia)-- SUNY Delhi Adjunct Instructor Amie Mansfield has been honored by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher with the 2014-15 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. This award recognizes consistently superior teaching at the graduate, undergraduate or professional level.

"We are pleased that Amie has been honored by the Chancellor as a role model within the SUNY adjunct community," said SUNY Delhi Provost John Nader. "Dr. Mansfield's work is exemplary."

"Adjunct teachers across the SUNY campuses provide consistently excellent instruction and are a key component of our faculty as we seek to increase access, completion, and success among students," said Chancellor Zimpher. "Those honored with this year's award have demonstrated extraordinary dedication to their students and an exceptional commitment to quality teaching. Congratulations, and thank you, to all of the honorees."

Mansfield will be awarded a certificate and a Chancellor's Excellence Medallion at the college's Employee Appreciation Day ceremony on May 26.

Dr. Amie Mansfield has served as an adjunct instructor for SUNY Delhi's nationally-recognized online RN to BSN program since 2008. During her tenure, she has been an extraordinary contributor to the Delhi campus, SUNY and her program by helping deliver an unparalleled learning experience to students in the online platform.

Mansfield's efforts as an adjunct instructor have played a great role in the number one ranking of the college's RN to BSN program by U.S. News & World Report. She integrates best practices in education and online teaching into her classroom and uses the latest resources, content, software and approaches in the health field. Outside the classroom, she has served as a statistician on a large grant for the BSN program for simulation software and she actively devises new methods to be implemented in the program and in the Master of Science in Nursing Education (MSN), SUNY Delhi's first master's degree.

Mansfield holds a Ph.D. and an M.Ed. with Distinction in Educational Research from Boston College's Lynch School of Education. Currently, she serves as a senior research scientist for Caliper in Princeton, N.J.

The Chancellor's Award for Excellence is presented annually in seven categories: Faculty Service, Librarianship, Professional Service, Scholarship and Creative Activities, Teaching, Classified Service, and Adjunct Teaching. The Chancellor's Awards for Excellence are System-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.