丁香园AV

Jen Marchbank鈥檚 stellar teaching record has earned the professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies a 2019 丁香园AV Excellence in Teaching Award.

Marchbank considers teaching to be a privilege and wants her students to leave her classroom informed, excited, and enthusiastic to learn more.

鈥淚鈥檝e always been a strong advocate that an academic鈥檚 job is to teach, because if we don鈥檛 teach, we don鈥檛 have students and we don鈥檛 have revenue, so there鈥檚 no place for us to conduct our research,鈥� she says. 鈥淚鈥檓 also a strong advocate for putting our most talented teachers in the early classes so that students get a sound grounding across the board.鈥�

One student鈥檚 comments sum up the general tenor of responses to Marchbank鈥檚 approach to teaching, describing her as 鈥減atient, understanding, enthusiastic, accessible鈥攐ne of the best profs I鈥檝e ever had.鈥�

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