Paul S. Dean
Sherwood Dodge Shankland Award for Encouragement of Teachers (2018)
2018 Commencement Excerpt
In six years at Ohio Wesleyan, Dr. Dean has developed a reputation for being a creative and dynamic teacher who partners with students in collaborative learning experiences.
One of his colleagues commented: “His engagement with students, his thoughtful strategies for motivating and monitoring student progress, and his particular commitment to first generation students and lower income and minority students are all extraordinary.”
One of Paul’s students made this comment: “Dr. Dean does an amazing job of exposing the truth of our societal assumptions. This is crucial to all people to look at our everyday lives in different perspectives to better understand the driving forces that dictate our way of life.”