{"id":9528,"date":"2016-11-03T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=9528"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:26:08","slug":"kroepsch-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/kroepsch-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each year, the Dean of the Faculty&#8217;s office asks current students and recent alumni to help recognize excellent teachers among us. Teaching fabulous ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students is, of course, its own reward \u2014 but public recognition for one\u2019s efforts and an award of $5,000 is also pretty great.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-highlight highlight-box is-style-blue\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Established by the late Robert H. Kroepsch, \u201933, LL.D. \u201971, the Ruth M. and Robert H. Kroepsch Endowed Fund honors a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty for outstanding performance as a teacher including a <strong>$5,000 <\/strong>award. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"#nominate\">We need your nominations<\/a>! Did a professor you remember fondly<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ignite your interest in the coursework and make you want to learn more?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">make you think about the world \u2013 and yourself \u2013 in new ways?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>hold you to a high standard?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">make going to class or doing your thesis a pleasure?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"nominate\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-btn btn-wrap\" id=\"48e0a818-2bb6-4077-ae2a-2615f2748ad7\"><div class=\"btn-action\" id=\"recent-kroepsch-award-winners-include\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"48e0a818-2bb6-4077-ae2a-2615f2748ad7\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><h3 class=\"btn-title\">Recent Kroepsch Award winners include:<\/h3><div class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btn-content\" id=\"48e0a818-2bb6-4077-ae2a-2615f2748ad7\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Clarisa P\u00e9rez-Armend\u00e1riz (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mara Tieken (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Katharine Ott (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sue Houchins (2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charles Nero (2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jennifer Koviach-C\u00f4t\u00e9 (2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joshua Rubin (2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Kelley-Romano (2019) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephen Engel (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/kroepsch-award\/\">Please find a comprehensive list of past recipients<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Thank you\u2014 balloting closes on February 13, 2026. We are no longer accepting nominations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the Dean of the Faculty&#8217;s office asks current students and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-9528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40924,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9528\/revisions\/40924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}