April 25, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Teresa Hendrix
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Cal Poly Announces Faculty Advisor Award

SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Graphic Communication Professor Lorraine Donegan has been named as the recipient of the fourth annual Faculty Advisor Award at Cal Poly.

Donegan will be recognized before her peers at the university's Fall Conference in September, and receive a $500 honorarium.

At the request of the provost, Cal Poly's Academic Advising Council launched the Outstanding Faculty Advisor award in 2001 to recognize outstanding achievement by a faculty member in the area of student advising. Nominations are solicited from faculty, staff, and students across campus.

Comments from those nominating Professor Donegan for this year's award
include:

  • "Lorraine has made monumental efforts to improve the quality of
    academic advising in her department. She is open, eager, and inclusive in her approach to the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge and skills.
    She is caring, energetic, straightforward, friendly, knowledgeable, accessible, smart, and well-liked."
  • "Lorraine Donegan is passionate about student advising -- she is the
    model for faculty advisers."
  • "Through her example, Ms. Donegan motivates her advisees to maintain
    a high standard and expectation concerning their education. If there is something she doesn't know, she knows where to find the answer and directs her advisee accordingly. Ms. Donegan is truly the paradigm of advisors and I am very fortunate to have her as my advisor."

Other faculty members nominated for this year's advising award were:

Psychology Professor Shawn Burn, Business Marketing Professor Sharon Dobson, Business Management Professor Barry Floyd, Horticulture and Crop Science Professor David Hannings, Business Accounting Professor Kate Lancaster, Political Science Chair and Professor Dianne Long, Landscape Architecture Professor Astrid Reeves, Psychology Professor Donald Ryujin, Electrical Engineering Professor Taufik (who uses one name) and Natural Resources Management Professor Richard Thompson.

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