Bea Lyons Honored At “Tea For Bea”

  • Friday, May 22, 2015

When Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Kimberly McCormick, established the Faculty Fellows Program during 2014, several well-known and respected educators were named as inaugural fellows. The Social and Behavioral Science Division honored Bea Lyons as its fellow. A special “Tea for Bea” was recently held to serve as a springboard for the first endowed fellowship in celebration of the Social and Behavioral Science faculty who will receive funding to improve instruction for their students.

“Bea remains a universally respected member of our division, the college and the community. Her devotion to scholarship, student and faculty rights, access to academic support for all, and service to the community are widely admired,” says Interim Social and Behavioral Science Dean John Haworth.

The purpose of the Faculty Fellows Program is to promote innovative curricular and co-curricular change, provide infrastructure for faculty to share pedagogical strategies and practices, support exploration of formative and summative assessments that can be applied in the classroom, build a campus learning community of scholarship and leadership, and provide an incentive and reward system that communicates the value and importance of quality curriculum development and instruction.

Surrounded by family, colleagues, former students and friends, Mrs. Lyons said, “it is such a lovely honor and truly humbling to be recognized in retirement. This event was a time for sharing memories and stories for over 30-plus years of teaching with these wonderful colleagues and it served as an opportunity for me to give back to Chattanooga State in support of faculty with the Faculty Fellows program.”

For more information about Faculty Fellows Endowments contact the Chattanooga State Foundation at www.chattanoogastate.edu/alumni-donors/foundation or call 423 697-2630.

 

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