The Liggit Family and Friends Teaching & Learning Partnership Scholarship
About The Liggit Scholarship
The endowment annually awards a $1,000 scholarship to an instructor-student pair (each will receive $500) who exemplify an outstanding example of an effective teaching and learning partnership. Applicants will describe how each contributed to the process of creating this partnership in learning. The instructor award will be in the form of a $500 honorarium (additional compensation). The student need not be enrolled the semester the award is given, but if there are outstanding EMU fees, these monies will go toward paying off any outstanding student debt to EMU. If the student is going to graduate the semester the award is given and there are no outstanding fees, any remaining amount of the $500 award will be refunded to the student.
Eligibility
The instructor may be a Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty, Full-Time or Part-Time Lecturer, or Adjunct. The student may be an undergraduate or graduate but must be in good standing with all university policies.
Review
Applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Development Center Advisory Council on March 26, 2020, and recommendations for scholarship winners will be given to the grant administrator for a final decision.
Scholarship Announcement
The winner of the Teaching and Learning Partnership will be announced in conjunction with the Thank-an-Eagle Celebration. This celebration has been postponed as a result of the Covid19 stay at home order.
Application Process
Past Scholarship Recipients
Dr. Jason Gibson and Student Kyle Frownfelter Expand dropdownMathematics and Statistics Dr. Jeannette Kindred and Student Taj Abdullah Expand dropdownCommunication, Media & Theatre Arts Professor Chelsea Lonsdale and Student Tyler Johnson Expand dropdownEnglish Language and Literature Dr. Camilla McComb and Student Amber Resseguie Expand dropdownArt Dr. Barbara Walters and Student Courtney Bailey Expand dropdownSocial Work Dr. Mark Whitters and Students Christopher Schemanske & Mary Gilson Expand dropdownHistory & Philosophy
Words of Wisdom
Teaching is the foundation of the Liggit family tree! From great grandmas to grand nieces, the Liggit family consists of a great number of school teachers, professors, tutors, coaches, and instructors. The Liggit Family and Friends Teaching & Learning Partnership endowment was founded in honor of our parents, Dr. Joseph and Mary Liggit, and is dedicated to all of our family members and friends who have devoted their lives to student-centered learning. We thank all donors whose contributions have made this scholarship possible.
In celebration of all who embody teaching and learning with heart, this scholarship recognizes instructional staff and their student partners who have placed the learning experience above and beyond the challenges and barriers faced while on their academic journey together.
Dr. Peggy Liggit Expand dropdownChelsea Lonsdale and Tyler Johnson Expand dropdownKatherine Ryker and Stephanie Porcari Expand dropdownFaye Askew-King and Victoria Lawrence Expand dropdownParker Palmer, Courage to Teach Expand dropdown"The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts, meaning heart in its ancient sense, as a place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self." Thomas Gordon, T.E.T. Teacher Effectiveness Training Expand dropdown"Teaching and learning are two different functions – two separate and distinct processes. . . .teaching is carried out by one person while the process of learning goes on inside another. . . .if teaching-learning processes are to work effectively, a unique kind of relationship must exist between these two separate organisms – some kind of a ‘connection,’ link, or bridge between the teacher and the learner."