Education Professor Hoff Receives Outstanding Teacher Award
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ORONO — Dianne Hoff, associate professor of educational leadership in the UMaine College of Education and Human Development, is the recipient of the college’s 2009 Outstanding Teaching Award.
Hoff, who has been on the faculty at the University of Maine since 1999, received the award Wednesday evening at the “3.5 Presidential Pin Ceremony,” the college’s annual awards ceremony, held at Buchanan Alumni House. About 70 students who have maintained high grade point averages also received pins acknowledging their success.
Hoff was nominated for the teaching award by doctoral student Mary Mahoney-O’Neil, who praises Hoff for her sincerity in caring about students’ success both in class and in the workforce as leaders in their schools.
“On a daily basis, students seek her out to talk about their course work or dissertation, to get professional advice about a problem they are facing in their schools, or to run a legal dilemma by her,” Mahoney-O’Neil says in her letter of nomination. “Her enthusiasm for her students and for school leadership is contagious, and students leave feeling like they can tackle any challenge.”
Hoff, who earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from Indiana University and her Ed.D. in education at the University of Louisville, also serves at UMaine as president of the Faculty Senate.