Charlene Barnett McDaniel wins Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award
November 1, 2011
The Ohio Association of Two Year Colleges has presented a Cincinnati State instructor, Charlene Barnett McDaniel, with its 2011 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award.
McDaniel, a Liberty Township resident who has taught at Cincinnati State for 16 years, was presented the award during recent ceremonies hosted by Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. Thirty-two faculty members were nominated by their respective institutions for the top teacher awards, one for a full-time faculty member and the other for an adjunct faculty member.
McDaniel teaches developmental education (writing) at Cincinnati State, along with a variety of writing courses that range from Basic Writing I to English Composition III. She has also taught in the First Year Experience and TRIO programs, and has worked in Cincinnati State’s Writing Center with traditional and online instructional sequences.
“We are so proud of Charlene,” said Dr. Monica Posey, Academic Vice President at Cincinnati State. “She inspires and nurtures students, balancing this with excellence in delivery of course content.”
Outside the classroom, McDaniel has given generously of her time at Cincinnati State and elsewhere on a volunteer basis. She has served on the Strategic Planning Committee for Developmental Education and the President’s Adjunct Forum at Cincinnati State, and is a regulator participant in workshops at the College and at those organized by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities. She was a presenter at the National Association for Developmental Education Conference 2011 and served on the convention’s Hospitality Committee in 2010; she also served this spring as a liaison for the NADE with the offices of U.S. Rep. John Boehner and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman.
Her personal volunteer activities include Hope for Haiti’s Children and the MS Society.
A native of Florence, Ala., McDaniel graduated from the University of North Alabama and did graduate work at the University of Alabama. Before coming to Cincinnati State she worked as a contract instructor for the U.S. Army and a variety of corporate clients and for the Great Oaks System and a community college in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
