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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The "Surprise Patrol" today gave out another Kemper Award for excellence in teaching and advising to a University of Kansas faculty member.
The patrol has given out 18 of the 20 individual Kemper Awards, which are worth $5,000 each. One more award will be distributed tomorrow; the final award will be given to an unsuspecting professor on Sept. 10.
In all, 20 professors will be honored and $100,000 distributed with Kemper Awards this year.
The W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence recognize outstanding teachers and advisers at KU as determined by a seven-member selection committee. Now in the seventh year of a 10-year program, the awards were established by a $500,000 fund from the William T. Kemper Foundation-Commerce Bank, Trustee, and $500,000 in matching funds from the KU Endowment Association.
Today's winner is:
Michael A. Oszko, associate professor in KU Medical Center's pharmacy school
Oszko teaches the Applied Drug Therapy course to students in the KU School of Nursing and students across the state via interactive television enhanced with the World Wide Web. Student evaluations attest to the fact that Oszko negotiates these media and the geographic distance between his pupils and himself so skillfully, "it is like he is really here in the room with us."
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