Sandra Haynes Receives Prestigious Board of Governors Hayward Award

Pasadena City College Professor Sandra Haynes was one of only three professors and a counselor were honored with the 2013 Gerald C. Hayward Awards for Excellence in Education today at the California Community Colleges Board of Governors meeting in Sacramento.

Pasadena City College Professor Sandra Haynes was one of only three professors and a counselor were honored with the 2013 Gerald C. Hayward Awards for Excellence in Education today at the California Community Colleges Board of Governors meeting in Sacramento on March 4.

The award honors outstanding community college faculty who have a track record of excellence both in teaching and in professional activities and have demonstrated commitment to their students, profession, and college. Peers from their college nominate faculty members for this honor.

Haynes, who teaches Art History, is the first instructor from PCC to receive the honor. She has worked to help Pasadena City College develop its distance education standards and curriculum, shared expertise of her discipline with colleagues, established history tutoring and research paper workshops with the help of the campus Learning Assistance Center, and supported diverse and flexible learning opportunities. In her field of art history, she has worked on the concept of a new kind of interactive e-book, a text she has used to enhance the teaching of art history through technology, whether face-to-face or online. Haynes also has increased the diversity in her field and developed new art history courses.

Haynes, along with the three other California community college faculty members, received a plaque and $1,250.