THOMASVILLE — Three faculty members at
Southwest Georgia Technical College (now Southern Regional Technical College) have been selected as finalists for the Rick Perkins Award
These
finalists include Heidi Bivins (Anatomy & Physiology), Glenda Hatcher
(Medical Assisting), and
Chris Parrish (Business Administrative
Technology).
The Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical
Instruction honors technical education’s most outstanding instructors.
Instructors are nominated by their peers and students, and those instructors
with the most nominations were selected as finalists.
“Our Rick Perkins
Award nominees represent excellence in instruction at Southwest Georgia
Technical College. These three instructors have been nominated by their
colleagues, one of the highest honors that a faculty member can receive from
their peers. I wish our three instructors good luck in the upcoming competition
for Instructor of the Year and know that they will do well as they exemplify
teaching excellence, innovation, and leadership,” Dr. Craig Wentworth, SWGTC
President.
This award has been an ongoing, statewide event since 1991 and
is designed to recognize technical college instructors who make significant
contributions to technical education through innovation and leadership in their
fields.
Formerly known as the Commissioner’s Award of Excellence, the
Rick Perkins Award was renamed in memory and honor of Thomas “Rick” Perkins, an
instructor at West Central Technical College, now West Georgia Technical
College, who received the Commissioner’s Award of Excellence prior to his
untimely death.
To become the state Rick Perkins Award winner, nominees
go through three phases of selection: the local technical college level, the
regional level, and the state level.
The state Rick Perkins Award winner
serves as an ambassador for technical education in Georgia and must have made
significant contributions to technical education through innovation and
leadership in his or her field of instruction.
The winner must also
exemplify excellence and a commitment to the mission of the Technical College
System of Georgia (TCSG). The statewide winner, who will be announced at a
ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, will carry the title of the Technical College
System of Georgia Instructor of the Year.
The SWGTC Rick Perkins
finalists have already competed in interviews. This SWGTC winner will represent
the college at the regional competition to be hosted at Moultrie Technical
College (Tifton Campus) on Feb. 28.
All regional winners will compete
for the TCSG Instructor of the Year title and will be announced on April 25 at
the GOAL and Rick Perkins Award Ceremony.
Southwest Georgia Technical
College is a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia.
