American National University has recognized one faculty member with the Faculty Instructional Excellence Award. This newly-established award recognizes faculty for their dedication to ANU students.
Faculty are nominated by the department chairperson and our selected based on four specific criteria:
- Commitment to teaching and to our students
- Intellectually stimulating our students through engagement and encouraging active learning
- Effectively communicating with students
- Establishing a positive and lasting impact on our students
The one recipient of the inaugural Faculty Instructional Excellence Award is:
Lyndsey Obringer (nominated by Dr. Carolyn Scott, business program): Lyndsey is always finding ways to engage with her students. She proactively sends me student updates, good and bad, and she also suggests improvements for the department, such as implementing Superheroes in the discussion board (i.e. everyone has a character to play—villain, superhero, victim, bystander, etc. This is designed to increase engagement and encourage the students to look at issues from the perspective of multiple stakeholders. This is, of course, just one example of an idea she recently shared. She is always demonstrating good team member and leadership skills.
She makes very good use of technology to provide video lectures in all her classes and requires video presentations in some of them. This enhances the students presentation skills, which they will need for employer-readiness.
In addition to being engaged, she is also always ready to take on a challenge. She asks to teach the courses with the lowest pass rates because she believes she can make a positive difference in everyone she reaches to improve those pass rates. So far she has been correct.
Lyndsey Obringer has served in a variety of positions over the past 13 years within the higher education sector, including admissions manager, director of graduate admissions, and ACBSP faculty credentialing coordinator. Lyndsey has been teaching full time and as an adjunct instructor for the past nine years.
Lyndsey received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Wilkes University, and her Master of Arts in leadership & organizational transformation from Chatham University; she is currently working on obtaining her Doctor of Strategic Leadership from Liberty University. She teaches various courses across the business program.
