Utah State Professors Receive Regional and National Attention

Utah State Professors Receive Regional and National Attention

Northern Rockies Consortium for Higher Education Prize

Brock Dethier, an assistant professor in Utah State University's department of English, has received the Northern Rockies Consortium for Higher Education (NORCHE) prize. Dethier's project, investigating important aspects of ethics in undergraduate education, earned the award.

NORCHE was founded in 1978 to foster creative improvement in higher education in the four-state region of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. The NORCHE consortium consists of 32 institutions of higher education in its member states. As part of the operation of this consortium, the board of directors has established funding for the NORCHE Prize for an Instructional Improvement Project.

The prize promotes individual or institutional projects for faculty or instructional development, including inter-institutional exchange relating to such development, in the member schools' states.

Dethier's goals for the project include developing and testing a research ethics unit that can be integrated into Utah State's Intermediate Writing course (English 2010). The research unit will be published and distributed to other universities and adapted by other disciplines. Department of English grad student Susan Andersen will serve as a research assistant on the project.