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The General Education Faculty Prize

The Program in General Education has established a Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education to recognize outstanding course design and pedagogy in General Education. This prize is awarded annually to the lead instructors of a transformative General Education course that models exemplary pedagogical practices.

Faculty Prize Winners

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2025 Faculty Prize Winner

Kathleen Coleman
James Loeb Professor of the Classics

“How are we to cope with the inevitability that some of what we most love in life we will lose?” Grounded in Greco-Roman antiquity (Professor Coleman’s area of expertise), but ranging across history, culture, and every student’s life, Gen Ed 1131 asks students to understand how humans confront loss: emotional loss, primarily bereavement, but also loss of home, exile, amputation, various forms of ‘ambiguous loss,’ and even anticipated loss…READ MORE
Kathleen Coleman