Golden Paw Recipients

The following instructors and courses have been certified through a course review process led by three peer instructors who have taught online, and selected by the Online Course Advisory Council.  These courses were reviewed to meet the UNM Online Best Practices Rubric standards in 5 Categories: Course Overview and Introduction, Instructional Elements, Interaction and Collaboration, Assessment and Feedback, and Course Evaluation.

The UNM rubric was developed at the direction of the Provost by faculty members serving on the Online Course Advisory Council and approved by the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee.  The following are the Recipients who have recieved the Online Course Advisory Best Practices Certificate.

Fall 2024 Recipients

• Erica Grong, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  MGMT 529, Fundamentals of Project Management

Spring 2024 Recipients

• Yoo Kyung Sung, Professor
  

  LLSS 443, Children's Literature

• Jessamyn Lovell, Principal Lecturer III
  

  ARTS 1220, Art Practices I

• Diana Torrez, Lecturer III
  

  SOCI 1110, Introduction to Sociology

• Breanna Reiss, Teaching Assistant Regular
  

  ARTH 1120, Introduction to Art

• Pamela Sedillo, Lecturer II and Stephanie Chambers, Lecturer III
  

  PH 471/571, Maternal & Child Public Health

• Meghann Dallin, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  HLED 2530, Fundamentals of Human Sexuality

• Chelsea Morris, Assistant Professor
  

  FCS 481, Public Policy & Advocacy in Family and Child Studies

• Alonso Arana, Graduate Asst Regular
  

  SPAN 2220, Spanish for Heritage Learners IV

• Jennifer Escajeda, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  HED 1220, Personal Health Management

• Andrew Bourelle, Associate Professor
  

  ENGL 321, Intermediate Creative Writing Fiction

• Kathy Towle, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  MGMT 495, Managing Small and Growing Businesses

Fall 2023 Recipients

• María Vielma
  

  SPAN 1210, Spanish for Heritage Learners

• Diane Torres-Velasquez, Assistant Professor
  

  EDUC 520, Effective Teaching and Student Learning

• Xi Gong, Assistant Professor
  

  GEOG 581L, Introductory GIS for Graduate Students

• Mario Del Angel Guevara, Visitin Lecturer II
  

  CCS 308, The Arto of Traditional Mexican Folk Healing

• Debbie Luffey, Lecturer II
  

  NUTR 2110, Human Nutrition

• Sara Daykin, Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 406, Human Nutrition

• Heather Sweetser, Senior Lecturer II
  

  ARBC 375, Movies of the Middle East

• Jack Su, Associate Professor
  

  MGMT 520, Operations Design and Decision

• Geraldine Y Guerra-Sandoval, Senior Lecturer I
  

  NURS 429, Limited English Proficient (LEP) Patients and Communication

• Angelika Koch, Adjunct Professor
  

  HED 493, Topics: Integrated Health Coaching

Spring 2023 Recipients

• Monique Rodriguez, Assistant Professor
  

  COUN 577, Substance Use and Abuse

• Ryan Knight, Lecturer I
  

  ACCT 2120, Managerial Accounting

• Cris Elder, Associate Professor
  

  ENGL 417, Technical Editing

• Amy Collins, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  PH 101, Population Health 101

• Breanna Griego-Schmitt, Term Teaching Faculty
  

  FYEX 1030, Critical Text Analysis

• Yu-Yu Hsiao, Assistant Professor
  

  EDPY 511, Introductory Educational Statistics

• Diana Habel-Rodriguez, Lecturer III
  

  CHEM 1225, General Chemistry II

• Chris Duvall, Chairperson
  

  GEOG 1160L, Home Planet Lab

• Marina Popova, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  MATH 1220, College Algebra

• Huaiyu (Mike) Duan, Associate Professor
  

  PHYS 1115, Survey of Physics

• Stephanie Sanchez, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  CCS 480/580, New Approaches in Chicana and Chicano Studies

• Mario Del Ángel-Guevara, Teaching Assistant
  

  SPAN 301, Curanderismo I

Spring 2021 Recipients

• Susana Martinez Guillem, Associate Professor
  

  CJ 318, Language, Thought, and Behavior

• Yoo Kyung Sung, Associate Professor
  

  LLSS 500, Issues in Language/Literacy/Sociocultural Studies

• Doug Thomas, Professor
  

  MGMT 328, International Management

• Donna Ray, Senior Lecturer III
  

  HIST 441, Religion in American History

• Cleophas Muneri, Senior Lecturer III
  

  CJ 340, Communications in Organizations

• Debra Serrino, Clinician Ed-Instructor
  

  NURS 406, Nursing in the Community

•  Marina Popova, Temp Parttime Faculty
  

  MATH 1430-B, Application of Calculus I

•  Elizabeth Dickson, Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 505, Health Care Policy, Systems, and Financing for Advanced Roles

•  Eliot Knight, Temporary Parttime Faculty
  

  COMM 2245, Web Design Online

• Wendy Greyeyes, Assistant Professor
  

  NATV 480, Building Native Nations

• Oleksandr Tkachenko,  Assistant Professor
  

  OILS 540, Foundations of Human Resource Development

• Kate Cunningham,  Journalism Instructor
  

  COMM 2185, Multimedia and Visual Communication

• David Gomez,  Temp Part Time Faculty
  

  OILS 535/6, Culture and Global e-Learning

• Heidi Rogers,  Clinician Ed-Assist Prof
  

  PH 560, Concepts in Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness

• Keith Prufer, Professor
  

  ANTH 1115, Introduction to Anthropology

• Jackee Wuellner, Director: RN-BSN Program
  

  NURS 407, Caring for Vulnerable Populations

Spring 2020 Recipients

•  Frances Vitali, Senior Lecturer III
  

  EDUC 438, Reading & Writing in the Content Area

• Jessica Rowland, Lecturer II
  

  SUST 1134, Introduction to Sustainability Studies

• Allen Butt, Senior Lecturer III
  

  PSYC 450, The Dreaming Brain

• Tobias Fischer, Professor
  

  ENVS 1130, The Blue Planet

•  Carolyn Hushman, Assistant Professor
  

  EDPY 472, Classroom Assessment

•  Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, Associate Professor
  

  MLNG 1110, Approaches to Languages and Cultures

• M.R. Hofer, Associate Professor
  

  ENGL 388, The Space-Age Epic

•  Marissa Greenberg, Associate Professor
  

  ENGL 352, Early Shakespeare

• Nancy López, Director, Institute for the: Study of "Race" & Social Justice
  

  SOC 420, Race and Inequality

• Cleophas Muneri, Senior Lecturer III
  

  CJ 365 History of Media

•  Debby Smith, Principal Lecturer II
  

  NURS 408, Professional Leadership & Management Roles in Nursing

• Linda Shul, Professional Faculty
  

  MGMT 324, New Venture Strategies

• Colin Olson, Senior Lecturer
  

  SOC 424 Race, Class, and Crime

• Tiffany Lee, Professor, Chair
  

  NATV 2140 Research Issues in Native America

• Aaron French, Associate Professor
  

  MGMT 329 Data Management

Fall 2019 Recipients

•  Yury Bosin, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  POLS 2120 Introduction to International Relations

• Chris Hall, Professor
  

  ME 595 Orbital Mechanics

•  Gail Houston, Professor
  

  ENG 457 Victorian Studies

• M. R. Hofer, Associate Professor
  

  ENGL 2620 American Literature II

• Natasha Howard, Lecturer III
  

  AFST 1110 Introduction to African Studies

• Charlie Steen, Professor
  

  HIST 1150 Western Civilization I

• Kelly Van Andel, Term Teaching Faculty
  

  RELG 350 Religion and Literature

•  Kate Cunningham, Part-time Faculty
  

  COMM 2190 Writing and Editing for Multimedia

• Leola Tsinnajinnie, Assisstant Professor
  

  NATV 1150 Introduction to Native American Studies

• Nicole Capehart, Visiting Lecturer I
  

  MGMT 398 Career Management Skills

• Jennifer Drexler, Clinician Ed-Instructor and Heidi Rogers, Clinician Ed-Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 459 Mindfulness, Health, and Well-Being

• Kimran Buckholz, Lecturer III
  

  BIO 1140 Biology for Health Related Sciences and Non-Majors

•  Christine Nathe, Professor
  

  DEHY 510 Dental Hygiene Research Methodology

• Jen Bennett, Adjunct Lecturer III
  

  PSYC 2120 Developmental Psychology

•  Debra Serrino, Clinician Educator
  

  NURS 429 Wound Care

Spring 2019 Recipients

•  Angelica Boyle, Visiting Lecturer II
  

  HED 371 Introduction to Public & Community Health

• Cody Wiley, Adjunct Faculty II
  

  GEOG 140 Introduction to World Regions

• Dave Dixon, Lecturer III
  

  ECON 105 Introductory Macroeconomics

•  Linda Shul, Professional Faculty
  

  MGMT 322 Marketing Management

•  Kathy Isaacson, Lecturer III
  

  CJ 327 Persuasive Communication

•  Tony Tiongson, Associate Professor
  

  AMST 184 Intro to American Popular Culture  - TA Master Course

• Doris Careaga-Coleman, Lecturer III
  

  CCS 493 Literatura y Cultura Afro-Mexicana

• Liz Johnson, Lecturer II
  

  MEDL 320 Introduction to Clinical Hematology and Hemostasis

Fall 2018 Recipients

• Allen Butt, Senior Lecturer III
  

  PSYC 2270 Psychology of Learning and Memory

• Jenn Gutierrez, Instructor
  

  EDUC 595 Advanced Field Experience

• Lisa Gerber, Principal Lecturer
  

  PHIL 156 Reasoning and Critical Thinking

• Lisa Marchiondo, Assistant Professor
  

  MGMT 306 Organizational Behavior and Diversity

•  Yen Pham, Assistant Professor
  

  SPCD 440/550 Introduction to Learning Disabilities

Spring 2018 Recipients

•  Sheryl Dodd-Hansen, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  CE 574 Principles of Written Construction Documents

•  Gail Houston, Professor
  

  ENGL 295 Survey of Later English Literature

•  Kelly Van Andel, Term Teaching Faculty
  

  ENGL 304 The Bible as Literature

•  Cody Wiley, Adjunct Faculty II
  

  GEOG 101 Land, Water, Life

•  Dave Dixon, Lecturer III
  

  ECON 303 Intermediate Microeconomics 1

•  Lea Briggs, Assistant Professor
  

  OILS 320 Information Management for Professionals

•  Satya Witt, Senior Lecturer
  

  BIOL 1110L Biology for Non-Majors

•  Luke Gorton, Lecturer III
  

  CLST 107 Greek Mythology

• Tiffany Bourelle, Assistant Professor
  

  ENGL 120 Accelerated Composition

• Shadee Abdi, Lecturer III
  

  CJ 130 Public Speaking

• Cristina Reiser, Lecturer III
  

  ECON 106 Introduction to Microeconomics

•  Christina Calleros, Assistant Professor
  

  DEHY 330 Dental Health Education

• Tiffany Bourelle, Assistant Professor
  

  ENGL 219 Technical and Professional Writing

•  Holly Hitzemann, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  MGMT 498, Strategic Management

Fall 2017 Recipients

•  Paul Rhien, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  ALB 365 Social Media Arts Marketing

•  Justine Andrews, Associate Professor and Chair
  

  ARTH 201 History of Art I

• Carmen Samora, Assistant Research Faculty
  

  CCS 201 Introduction to Chicana Chicano Studies

•  Marjori Krebs, Associate Professor
  

  EDUC 101 Introduction to Education in New Mexico

•  Cheryl Torrez, Associate Professor
  

  EDUC 502 Advanced Instructional Strategies

•  Marissa Greenberg, Associate Professor
  

  ENGL 354 Milton

• Sheri Williams, Assistant Professor
  

  LEAD 560 Instructional Leadership, Supervision, and Evaluation

• Ann Brooks, Principal Lecturer
  

  MGMT 303 Managerial Accounting

• Jacqueline Hood, Professor
  

  MGMT 306 Organizational Behavior and Diversity

• Jan Martin, Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 410 Foundations of Leading Change and Advancing Health

•  Tiffany Lee, Professor
  

  NATV 305 Indigenous Self-Determination in Education

• Jacqueline Wuellner, Instructor of Nursing
  

  NURS 429 Intro to Holistic Nursing

Spring 2017 Recipients

•  Ruth Meredith, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  ARTH 101 Introduction to Art

•  Carmen Samora, Assistant Research Faculty
  

  CCS 342 Race, Culture, Gender, Class History of New Mexico

•  Kathy Isaacson, Lecturer III
  

  CJ 221 Interpersonal Communication  - TA Master Course

•  Kathy Isaacson, Lecturer III
  

  CJ 323 Nonverbal Communication  - TA Master Course

•  Christine Nathe, Professor
  

  DEHY 538 Stats in Dental Hygiene

•  Irene Welch, Senior Lecturer III
  

  EDUC 330L  Teaching of Reading to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

•  Tiffany Bourelle, Assistant Professor
  

  ENGL110 Composition III

•  Robin Minthorn, Assistant Professor
  

  LEAD 509 Leadership & Organizational Change

•  Shawn Secatero, Assistant Professor
  

  LEAD 521 School Finance and Resource Allocation

•  Dawn Nordquist, Visiting Lecturer III
  

  LING 101 Introduction to the Study of Language  - TA Master Course

•  Bryan Wehrli, Lecturer III
  

  EDUC 590 Master's Capstone

•  Angelica Boyle, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  HED 477/577 Stress Management

• Amelia Nelson, Senior Lecturer
  

  MGMT 463 Employment Law for Business Managers

•  Robert Tepper, Principal Lecturer
  

  MGMT 559  Law for Accountants

•  Nuzhat Ali, Senior Lecturer I
  

  NURS 409 Health Policy, Economics & Systems

•  Ruth De Rego, Assistant Professor & Van Roper, Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 526 Advanced Pathophysiology

•  Melinda Tinkle, Associate Professor
  

  NURS 405 Genetic Literacy Across the Lifespan

•  Cheryl Bryan, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  PSY 329 Adolescent Psychology

• Bruno Gagnon, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  PSY 400 History of Psychology

•  Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez, Associate Professor
  

  SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I  - TA Master Course

•  Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez, Associate Professor
  

  SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II  - TA Master Course

Fall 2016 Recipients

•  Kersti Tyson, Assistant Professor
  

  EDUC 361 Teaching Mathematics K-8

•  Marjori Krebs, Associate Professor
  

  EDUC 563 Mentoring Educators for Professional Growth

•  Yoo Kyung Sung, Associate Professor
  

  EDUC/LLSS 537 International Literature for Young People

•  Regina Chavez Puccetti, Lecturer II
  

  FA 250 Introduction to Arts Management

•  Mary Kathleen Towle, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  MGMT 326 Financial Management

•  Asal Naseri, Lecturer II
  

  ME 306 Dynamics

• Heidi Rogers, Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 501 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Nursing

•  Kim Cox, Associate Professor
  

  NURS 613 Mixed Methods Research

•  Angeline Delucas, Assistant Professor
  

  NURS 703 Applied Clinical Research in Advanced Nursing Practice

• Bruce Perlman, Regents' Professor
  

  PADM 522 Program Evaluation

•  Ellen Grigsby, Principal Lecturer
  

  POLS 260 Political Ideas

•  Donna Ray, Lecturer III
  

  RELG 264 Western Religions

•  Phyllis Palmer, Associate Professor
  

  SHS 302 Intro to Communication Disorders

Spring 2016 Recipients

•  Laurel Lampela, Professor
  

  ARTE 590 Current Trends and Issues in Art Education

•  Satya Witt, Lecturer III
  

  BIOL 1110 Biology for Non-Majors

•  Melissa Velasco, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  DANC 105 Dance Appreciation

• Terri Flowerday, Professor
  

  EDPY 310 Learning and the Classroom

•  Virginia Padilla Vigil, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  EDUC 400 Elementary Student Teaching Seminar

•  Lisa Chavez, Associate Professor
  

  ENG 224 Introduction to Creative Writing

•  Ying Xu, Term Teaching Faculty
  

  ENGL 315 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature:  The Outlaw and the Outlawed in American Literature

•  Julie Shigekuni, Professor
  

  ENGL 421 Advanced Creative Writing-Fiction

•  Sheri Williams, Assistant Professor
  

  LEAD 503 Data-Informed Instructional Leadership

•  Barbara Masten, Professor
  

  MEDL 234 Introduction to Clinical Immunology

•  Lee Danielson, Associate Professor
  

  MEDL 310L Introduction to Clinical Chemistry

•  Amelia Nelson, Senior Lecturer
  

  MGMT 310 Legal Issues for Managers

•  Mary Margaret Rogers, Associate Professor of Management
  

  MGMT 586 Strategic Logistics Management

•  Jennifer Lau, Principal Lecturer III
  

  MUS 139 Music Appreciation

•  Jeffrey Piper, Professor
  

  MUS 375 The Beatles: Revolution

•  Paula Corbin-Swalin, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  MUS 376 Film Music History

•  Debra Smith, Principal Lecturer III
  

  NURS 302 Advancement of Professional Nursing

•  Amy Weiss, Assistant Professor & Kathy Minoli, Senior Lecturer
  

  NURS 543 Pharmacological Principals of Clinical Therapeutics

• PJ Woods, Associate Professor
  

  NURS 705  The Business & Policy of Practice & Their Effects on the U.S. Health Care System

•  Barbra Portzline, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  OILS 544 Program Evaluation

•  Michael Hess, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  POLS 200 American Politics

•  Bruno Gagnon, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  PSY 376 The Psychology of Love

•  Rebecca Blankley, Senior Lecturer III
  

  RADS 481 Medical Imaging Pathology

•  Kelly Van Andel, Term Teaching Faculty
  

  RELG 107 Living World Religions

•  Carmen Julia Holguin Chaparro, Lecturer III
  

  SPAN 307 Introduction to Hispanic Literature

•  Justina Trott, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  WMST 379 Women, Medicine & Health

Fall 2015 Recipients

•  Keith Hunley, Associate Professor 
  

  ANTH 150 Evolution and Human Emergence

•  David Weiss, Assistant Professor 
  

  CJ 387 Introduction to Strategic Communication

•  Charles Fleddermann, Professor
  

  ECE 203 Circuit Analysis I

•  Cristina Reiser, Lecturer III 
  

  ECON 105 Introductory Macroeconomics

•  Jan Armstrong, Professor 
  

  EDPY 303 Human Growth and Development

•  Irene Welch-Mooney, Senior Lecturer
  

  EDUC 331/531 Teaching of Reading in the Elementary School

•  Cheryl Torrez, Associate Professor
  

  EDUC 542 Principles of Curriculum Development

•  CK Barlow, Lecturer II
  

  FA 470 Advanced Topics in Arts Management Practices: Arts Entrepreneurship

•  Cody Wiley, Adjunct Faculty II
  

  GEOG 102 People & Place

•  Peter Vorobieff, Professor
  

  ME 530 Theoretical Fluid Mechanics

• Yu-Lin Shen, Professor 
  

  ME 542 Deformation Analysis and Modeling

•  Elizabeth Greer, Director & Principal Lecturer
  

  RADS 406 Medical Imaging Theory III

•  Ann Brooks, Principal Lecturer 
  

  MGMT 550 Professional Accounting

•  Joshua Saiz, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  MGMT 637 Database Management

•  Laurie Schatzberg, Professor Emerita
  

  MGMT 630 Management of IS

•  Robin Meize-Grochowski, Professor
  

  NURS 332 Evidence-Based Practice

•  Jacqueline Wuellner, Instructor of Nursing 
  

  NURS 515 Nurse Educator Roles and Professional Issues

• Jennifer Bennett, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  PSY 332 Abnormal Behavior

•  Lisa Gerber, Senior Lecturer
  

  RELG 263 Eastern Religions

•  Becky Adams, Temp Part-time Faculty
  

  OILS 530 Theory & Practice of Distance Learning

More information about OCAC and the Golden Paw Certification

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