The faculty recognition program rewards outstanding teacher innovators and outstanding mediated classroom teachers from each of the four colleges of the university. Recipients are selected by a committee chaired or appointed by the respective college dean. May. Peterson is the recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Innovation Award for November. The university provides two-thirds of the financial award and the other third comes from Commerce Bank of Hays, which established a fund with the university to help recognize outstanding faculty teaching. I believe the innovations show continuous quality improvements for better learning experiences.
Evaluations show that students also consider the learning experience to be excellent.
Peterson said several students commented that increasing the amount of time and responsibility in monitoring the frail elderly improved their ability to provide care to those patients. Peterson came to FHSU in 1998 from Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte, NE, where she was the director of the associate degree of nursing program.