Adrian Recognizes
Excellent Teaching of Two Professors
College Honors Caldwell
and Tregea with Teaching Awards posted
10/5/06
ADRIAN, Mich.—Two Adrian College
professors, Dr. Agnes Caldwell and Dr. Bill Tregea,
have been recognized by the College for their excellence
in teaching.
 Dr.
Agnes Caldwell, associate professor of sociology, social
work and criminal justice, received the Teacher Excellence
Award.
Caldwell earned her doctorate at Wayne
State University in 2001, specializing in social movements
and community organizing. Her dissertation research
looked at the community organizing around the marching
season in Northern Ireland. Prior to her doctorate she
worked with low-income residents as a part-time community
organizer in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Since coming to Adrian College, Dr.
Caldwell has distinguished herself through professional
and campus work, and is highly respected by her colleagues
and students.
She is the recent author of the American
Sociological Association’s “Critical Thinking
in the Sociological Classroom” (2004) and is a
regular presenter at the American Sociological Association
and Midwest Sociology Society annual meetings on using
various pedagogies in the classroom. In 2004 she was
elected chair of the Midwest Sociology Society’s
Committee on Teaching and Learning.
She has twice been recognized by Michigan
Campus Compact as an outstanding service-learning professor
and was a 2005 finalist with the local community organization,
Cambios Inc., for the prestigious Jimmy and Rosalyn
Carter Award.
She is married to Tim Wilson and has
two children, Abigail and Owen.
 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.
Dr. Bill Tregea, professor of sociology,
social work and criminal justice, received the 2006
Ross Newsom Award for Outstanding Teaching.
Tregea, working with Adrian’s
East Side Community Coalition, helped to start up a
Boys & Girls Club in Adrian, launch a community
policing deliberation board, conduct neighborhood surveys
about housing and community assets, and he brought in
speakers and workshops on business and economic revitalization.
He received five grants totaling over $15,000 to involve
students in these projects through academic service
learning.
He incorporates his students into
his work with prisoner education. He wrote a gun violence
prevention grant for the local sheriff and involved
his students in a Riga Township Sheriff’s Department
community policing survey. He collaborated with the
Adrian police chief, leading his criminal justice students
in a community policing survey of ten percent (4,000)
of Adrian’s households.
Tregea has introduced several new
courses at Adrian, including one about occupations in
criminal justice, and another on pre-law, criminal investigation
and forensics.
Active in professional organizations,
Tregea is currently working on a three-book series describing
the prison world, criminology and prisoner reentry.
He has many community contacts and helps to arrange
many professional criminal justice and crime prevention
internships. Tregea helps many criminal justice students
get jobs, go to law school or enter graduate school.
His students say he’s an “all-there,
heads up” teacher and advisor who makes classes
interesting and gives the extra effort to help.
Tregea, a 25-year veteran teacher,
earned a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral
degree in sociology from Michigan State University,
in addition to a master of science degree in criminal
justice, also from Michigan State.
The Ross Newsom Award honors the memory
of Ross Newsom (Adrian College class of 1936), and is
sponsored by his sons.
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