Award Description

This prestigious award honors 10 professors from throughout Texas during the current academic year for their dedication to the teaching profession and superior teaching ability at the college level. Although the purpose of these awards is to provide recognition to the teaching profession, the selection committee will also consider factors such as research, publication, administration and related activities. Each award recipient will be honored with a certificate naming them “Piper Professor” of the year, a cash honorarium of $5,000, and a gold commemorative pin.

Selection Process/Eligibility

Under the current Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation guidelines, each institution may submit only one nomination. The Faculty Awards Committee reviews nominations and makes a recommendation to the President for approval of the selected candidate. The candidate for the award must be a full-time instructor. Nominations are taken in early fall, with the official announcement of award recipients made in May each year by the Piper foundation. 

Deadline

Selection criteria, application form, and nomination deadline can be found on the Faculty Senate website.

Learn more about the Piper Professor Award on the Texas Comptroller website.

Award Recipients
Red type indicates individual received a Piper Professorship

YEAR FACULTY MEMBER DEPARTMENT
YEARYEAR

2024-2025

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Vess L. Johnson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Information Technology and Decision Sciences

YEARYEAR

2023-2024

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Marjorie Tieslau

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Economics

YEARYEAR

2022-2023

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Megan Morrissey

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Communication Studies

YEARYEAR

2021-2022

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Christopher J. Fuhrmann

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2020-2021

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

J. Todd Moye

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2019-2020

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Nancy Stockdale

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2018-2019

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Andrew J. Torget

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2017-2018

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Michael Thompson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Philosophy & Religion

YEARYEAR

2016-2017

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

John Ishiyama

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science

YEARYEAR

2015-2016

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

John Quintanilla

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Mathematics

YEARYEAR

2014-2015

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Smita Mehta

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Educational Psychology

YEARYEAR

2013-2014

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Michael McPherson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Economics

YEARYEAR

2012-2013

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Neal Brand

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Mathematics

YEARYEAR

2011-2012

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Janice Hauge

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Economics

YEARYEAR

2010-2011

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Carol Wickstrom

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Teacher Education and Administration

YEARYEAR

2009-2010

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Francisco Guzman

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Business

YEARYEAR

2008-2009

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Julia Bushkova

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Instrumental Studies

YEARYEAR

2007-2008

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Pamela Harrell

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Teacher Education and Administration

YEARYEAR

2006-2007

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Kimi King

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science

YEARYEAR

2005-2006

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Mariela Nunez-Janes

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Anthropology

YEARYEAR

2005-2006

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Carol Wickstrom

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Teacher Education and Administration

YEARYEAR

2003-2004

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Audhesh Paswan

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Marketing and Logistics

YEARYEAR

2001-2002

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Frank Feigert

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science

YEARYEAR

2000-2001

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Margie Tieslau

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Economics

YEARYEAR

2000-2001

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

James Roberts

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Physics

YEARYEAR

1998-1999

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Donna Ledgerwood

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Management

YEARYEAR

1995-1996

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Gloria Cox

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science

YEARYEAR

1987-1988

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Donna Clevinger

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Dance and Theatre

YEARYEAR

1979-1980

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Anshel Brusilow

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Music

YEARYEAR

1972-1973

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Ruth Anderson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Business

YEARYEAR

1968-1969

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Clovis Morrisson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Government (now Political Science)

YEARYEAR

1964-1965

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Helen Hewitt

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Music