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ODK selects Teacher of the Year at Florida Southern College Honors Convocation

LAKELAND, Fla. (April 27, 2007) — Dr. Richard R. Burnette, Jr., director of student disability services at Florida Southern College, was voted “Teacher of the Year” by Omicron Delta Kappa, the honorary leadership fraternity, at the annual Honors Convocation held April 18.

The ODK Outstanding Teaching Award is designed to recognize significant leadership in the classroom as well as on the campus at large. In Burnette’s 45-year career with Florida Southern, he has served the college and the community in several capacities and received numerous teaching awards. He chaired the psychology department for 24 years and the social science division for 27 years. He directed the college counseling center and the testing service office and has served as director of psychological testing since 1963. Among his teaching awards, Burnette has been named FSC Teacher of the Year, and received the Sears Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence Award and the United Methodist Church Board of Higher Education Exemplary Teaching Award.

An ordained United Methodist minister, Burnette was a coordinator of ministerial assessment for the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church and editor of the National Newsletter for Ministerial Assessment Specialists. He has served as president of both the Florida Educational Research Association and the Florida Institutional Research Association.

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Founded in 1885, Florida Southern College is a private, comprehensive, United Methodist college with a liberal arts core. The college maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 39 undergraduate majors and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, and nursing. Florida Southern has a 13:1 student/faculty ratio, provides strong student/faculty mentorship programs, boasts 25 NCAA Division II national championships, and is ranked by U. S. News and World Report as one of the top ten Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s institutions and by the Princeton Review as a “Best Southeastern College.” Located on scenic Lake Hollingsworth, Florida Southern is the home of the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.

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