COLLEGE HONORS BOSIO AND CELLINI FOR EXCELLENT TEACHING posted 9/6/05

Above (L to R): Cindy Bosio, President Jeffrey Docking, and Don Cellini

Two Adrian College professors were recognized for their excellence in teaching during the Convocation ceremony Aug. 31.

Don Cellini, professor of modern languages and cultures, received the Teacher Excellence Award.

Cellini’s students call him a great professor who is more than willing to help. They comment that they appreciate his patience, humor, and enthusiasm.

Showing great versatility, Cellini successfully moved from the teacher education department, which he chaired, to the modern languages and cultures department, which he also chaired. His expertise in Spanish, his second teaching area, was enhanced by study in Madrid with a King Juan Carlos Fellowship, and later as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellow in Cuba. He has helped develop the Adrian-Cuernavaca program to bring students from Mexico to Adrian College. He has also been instrumental as a board member of Cambios, an organization that fights discrimination through multicultural education.

Cellini served as president of the faculty, and served two terms as a faculty associate trustee. He has served on many faculty committees, taken a major leadership role on the College’s diversity committee, and acted as vice president, secretary, and grievance officer for the faculty union. Overall, he has provided service to the county and the College while serving as an exemplary teacher.

Cellini earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Edward’s University (Austin, Texas), a master’s degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a doctorate from the University of Toledo.

Cindy Bosio, professor of mathematics, received the Ross Newsom Award for Outstanding Teaching. Over more than two decades at Adrian College, she has excited hundreds of students about the possibilities of mathematics. She is known for her desire to help her students succeed. Her students make comments like these: She is “the best teacher that I have ever had, her enthusiasm inspires students.”

Bosio has served on faculty committees, chaired the mathematics department, advised Phi Eta Sigma (the national freshman honor society), and participated on the Special Admissions Support Program board. Beyond Adrian College, she has worked with a state committee that oversees and evaluates the state mathematics exam, and participates in workshops to enhance her instruction for teacher education students.

Bosio earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, and two master’s degrees from Eastern Michigan University.

The Teaching Excellence Award is sponsored by the Division of Higher Education of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church.

The Ross Newsom Award honors the memory of Ross Newsom (Adrian College class of 1936), and is sponsored by his sons.