{"id":1013,"date":"2021-04-08T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=1013"},"modified":"2022-03-17T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:24:24","slug":"dr-williams-recognized-by-the-bor-with-the-campus-based-teaching-award-for-wcsu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/dr-williams-recognized-by-the-bor-with-the-campus-based-teaching-award-for-wcsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Williams recognized by the BOR with the campus-based Teaching Award for WCSU."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1014\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1014\" class=\"wp-image-1014 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/Williams-photo-002-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Howell Williams\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/Williams-photo-002-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/Williams-photo-002-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/Williams-photo-002-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/Williams-photo-002.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Howell Williams<\/p><\/div>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 70%\">Dr. Howell Williams, assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/\">Social Sciences<\/a>, was recognized by the BOR with the campus-based Teaching Award for WCSU.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Williams is a political scientist who teaches on a range of topics, including American government, political institutions, political theory, and gender and sexuality politics.<br \/>\nHis classes often use role-playing games to introduce students to historical events such as the Constitutional Convention and Supreme Court rulings.<\/p>\n<p>Williams also brings in experts to discuss current events. He collaborated with the office of Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton for a course about local public administration, which allowed students to visit local government offices and get hands-on experience with the workings of city governance. He has also invited State Representatives, members of local media organizations, and sitting members of the U.S. Congress to meet students and discuss their role in America\u2019s governing institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can use role-playing and hearing from today\u2019s decision-makers to help students learn concepts like separation of powers and checks and balances in U.S. government,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI love research, but I was really inspired by the great teachers I had growing up. Teaching was what made me get a Ph.D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The awards \u2014 both campus-based and system-wide \u2014 recognize faculty for excellence in teaching or research. The awards are given to adjunct faculty members and assistant and associate professors in tenure-track or tenured positions who have distinguished themselves as outstanding teachers, promote instructional improvements for their departments, and are doing exceptional research, scholarly, and\/or creative work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Howell Williams, assistant professor of Social Sciences, was recognized by the BOR with the campus-based Teaching Award for WCSU. Williams is a political scientist who teaches on a range of topics, including American government, political institutions, political theory, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1013","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}