2005/2006 Award Winners for Distinguished Teaching

Jeanne Herrick, Miles Harvey, Thomas F. Gibbons, and Qung W. Go have been selected to receive the 2005-6 SCS Distinguished Teaching Award. These distinguished members of the SCS faculty stimulated intellectual curiosity and growth, motivated students and used effective and inspiring teaching techniques.

Jeanne Herrick

Jeanne Weiland Herrick received her PhD from the University of Illinois-Chicago and is a full-time Lecturer in the Weinberg College´s Writing Program where she teaches a variety of writing courses. In addition to expository writing, she teaches in Engineering Design and Communication, a joint venture between the McCormick School of Engineering and the Writing Program. Dr. Herrick also teaches a freshmen seminar, "Insiders and Outsiders: Reading and Writing Cultural Stories" related to her research interest, sociolinguistics, the study of how people from different cultures and language groups can better communicate and understand each other. An important component of this course are field trips that take students to different neighborhoods in Chicago, such as Pilsen, Devon Avenue, and Humboldt Park, where they meet and learn from the "insiders" of those communities.

Drawing on her ten-year experience in sales and marketing for CBS television, Dr. Herrick also teaches the Business Communication course for the Master in Product Development Program for McCormick's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She also works with Northwestern University´s Law School, as a consultant on issues of cross-cultural legal writing and cultural acculturation and teaches courses for Northwestern's School of Continuing Studies, including Reading and Writing English for Non-native Speakers, Writing for the Professions, and Intermediate Expository Writing. In her spare time, Dr. Herrick likes to garden, dance, kayak (at her cottage on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound), travel, and of course, read. And, she is an avid NU basketball fan.

Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey, author of The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2001), is working on a creative nonfiction project about Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, the first European artist in North America, to be published by Random House. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, The Sun, The Sonora Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and other journals. The recipient of a 2004-2005 Illinois Arts Council Award for prose, Mr. Harvey has written for the United Press International, In These Times, and Outside magazine. He teaches creative nonfiction in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing program at Northwestern, where he is also the 2007 Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.

Thomas F. Gibbons

Thomas F. Gibbons is the dean of Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies, which offers to adult learners a broad spectrum of part-time undergraduate and graduate programs and non-credit certificate and corporate programs. Dean Gibbons also oversees a variety of special programs, including the Center for Public Safety, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, and Northwestern's Summer Session. The School of Continuing Studies, founded in 1933 as University College, today offers educational programs to nearly 3,000 students annually at its Evanston, Chicago Lake Shore and Chicago Loop campuses. Dean Gibbons, who is an attorney and also a senior lecturer at Northwestern's School of Law, teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in conflict resolution, negotiations, mediation, and arbitration. He is also a labor arbitrator and mediator, as well as past president of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Chicago Chapter, and the past chairman of the Chicago Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Dean Gibbons holds law degrees from Yale Law School and DePaul University College of Law; a master's degree from Drew University, and a bachelor's degree from Fordham University.

Qung W. Go

Adjunct Instructor, NU School of Continuing Studies and McCormick School of Engineering. Mr. Go holds an MBA from NU Kellogg School of Management and BA from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Go is a retired partner from Accenture. While at Accenture, he led the Operations Management and Delivery Excellence function for the Communications & High Tech Group in North America. He has extensive systems integration experience and led several of Accenture's largest and leading edge projects. Mr. Go has also attained PMP certification. Mr. Go teaches project management in the School of Continuing Studies and teaches Enterprise Applications and Integration at McCormick.