04/27/2009

Greg Stump Honored with A&S Outstanding Teaching Award

The College of Arts & Sciences announced the recipients of the 2009-2010 Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Awards. The recipients are Irene Chico-Wyatt of the Department of Hispanic Studies, Joe Straley of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Greg Stump of the Department of English and Director of the Linguistics Program, and Alice Turkington of the Department of Geography. 

Greg Stump (Professor, Department of English)
Professor Stump has been a model teacher at UK for 26 years. A linguist in the Department of English, he has taught an impressive range of courses from Modern English Grammar to Historical Linguistics and Sanskrit Philology. Professor Stump connects exceptionally well with students in and out of the classroom, as current and former students and colleagues attest. Even more impressive than the extraordinarily high numeric assessment of his teaching is what students have to say about him in the classroom. Comments on course evaluations range from the laconic ("I'm sad this is the last class I'll ever take with him") to the poetic ("Professor Stump is so good at what he does that he could teach Underwater Basket Weaving to a group of small flightless birds") and straight to the point ("best professor I've had at UK"). Stump is also a member of the International Studies Program Advisory Committee and has played an essential role in the Indian Studies Program and minor.