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Marshal McGlamery
Aaron T. Ebata
Karl E. Gardner Undergrad Adviser Award
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Clyde & Downey Spitler Teaching Award
William Sullivan III
Service Recognition Award
Edward W. Stoller
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Clyde and Henrietta Downey Spitler Teaching Award
Engaging, challenging, and highly innovative are three ways students describe the teaching of William C. Sullivan III. His two-semester landscape design sequence is organized around the concept of active learning, transforming students from complete novices—generally without any prior knowledge in design or drawing—to designers who are eagerly sought by the best firms in Illinois. In fact, for each of the last four years, he has had more than twice as many requests to hire his students from landscape design and construction firms than he has had students. Sullivan exemplifies the very best of university teaching. His tremendous depth of knowledge, enthusiasm, high standards, and mentoring have given students ample reasons for placing Sullivan on the "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent" eight times in his six years of teaching in ACES. One of the most striking and innovative aspects of his teaching is in maintaining vital connections to landscape design practitioners. It is through these connections that Sullivan keeps abreast of the needs of the industry and continues to serve his students long after their graduation. |
