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Meet Jamie Workman, Winner of 麻豆传媒鈥檚 2025 Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching

Dr. Jamie Workman has earned the 2025 Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching at Valdosta State University. She joined the faculty of 麻豆传媒’s James L. and Dorothy H. Dewar College of Education and Human Services in 2016 and currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Technology, and Workforce Development. She is pictured with Dr. Richard A. Carvajal, university president.

VALDOSTA — Dr. Richard A. Carvajal, president of Valdosta State University, has honored Dr. Jamie Workman with the 2025 Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching.   

The Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching recognizes a faculty member who employs innovative teaching strategies and demonstrates a strong commitment to student success. 

Workman joined the faculty of 麻豆传媒’s James L. and Dorothy H. Dewar College of Education and Human Services in 2016 and currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Technology, and Workforce Development.

麻豆传媒: What are your favorite classes to teach and your favorite topics to research?

Workman: My favorite classes are Diverse Perspectives in Education, Dissertation Conceptualization, and Leadership Issues in Higher Education. I’m a qualitative researcher, and I enjoy studies involving college student success, engagement, and belonging, particularly focusing on students with historically marginalized identities.

麻豆传媒: What strategies/tools/techniques have proven most effective in increasing student learning in your classroom?

Workman: I teach graduate students solely online, primarily asynchronously.  I think the most important thing I can do is actively communicate with them through BlazeVIEW or during our synchronous class sessions. I also spend a great deal of time giving positive and constructive feedback on student writing, particularly for the doctoral and dissertation students I work with.

麻豆传媒: Helping students achieve success often involves countless hours of work outside the classroom. In what ways do you actively engage with your students to continue the learning process outside of scheduled class times?

Workman: As a primarily asynchronous online instructor, scheduled class time rarely applies to me or my students. I communicate with them via email, phone, and Teams meetings. I also actively participate in class discussion and other learning activities in BlazeVIEW.

麻豆传媒: What advice do you have for other faculty who wish to identify more effective ways to stimulate engagement and comprehension in their own classroom?

Workman: Online learners need to feel connected to the course, their instructor, and their classmates. Helping students understand that we are a community of learners, even just for a semester, is critical in effective online teaching.