Nick Place Receives NACTA Teacher Fellow Award

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Chuck Wo

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Nick Place nplace@ufl.edu, (352) 392-0502, Ext. 227
Mike Fields fields@animal.ufl.edu, (352) 392-9566

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Nick Place, an associate professor with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, received the Teacher Fellow Award from North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) during the organization’s annual conference in Wooster, Ohio, June 17.

Place was selected for the award because of his excellent teaching program in UF’s agricultural education and communication department. In addition to teaching courses in extension education, international extension, adult education, administration and supervision, Place is the department’s graduate coordinator and organizes new faculty orientation for the UF extension service.

He was nominated for the award by Michael Fields, a professor in the animal sciences department and chair of the awards committee in UF’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Fields said the purpose of the annual conference is to provide professional advancement of faculty engaged in classroom teaching. Participants have the opportunity to share teaching methods, philosophies and styles of instruction. The theme of the 2005 conference was experiental and student-centered learning.

Place, who joined the UF faculty in August 1999, completed his bachelor’s degree in dairy science at Delaware Valley College. He earned his master’s degree in animal science and his doctoral degree in agricultural and extension education at Pennsylvania State University.

NACTA is a professional society that promotes, recognizes and rewards excellence in teaching agriculture and related areas at the postsecondary level in North America. Members of NACTA are from two-year and four-year colleges, both public and private.

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Posted: September 27, 2005


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