Dr. Eric Wilk Receives Teaching Excellence Award
Dr. Eric Wilk with Nighthawk Legacy Award Winner Lauren NelsonCONGRATULATIONS to Assistant Professor Dr. Eric Wilk, the 2025 recipient of the University of North Georgia’s Distinguished Teaching Award!
Presented by 国产自拍’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CTLL), the award recognizes excellence in teaching by a faculty member over the course of a distinguished career. CTLL’s Award Review Committee recognized Eric’s exceptionally strong “alignment with the award criteria including his teaching philosophy, methodical examination of practice, and continual improvement of teaching and learning.” Additionally, the Committee highlighted his “history of sustained impact on student learning both in and out of the classroom.”
I'm humbled to win when there are so many great teachers here at 国产自拍. From the beginning teaching has brought a number of obstacles to someone who had a debilitating fear of public speaking, but God's grace has helped transform that fear into a strength.
Since joining PSIA in August of 2021, Dr. Wilk has been an integral member of our political science program on the Gainesville campus, focusing on American politics, statistics, and research design. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University at Buffalo (UB), SUNY in 2010 and a Master’s Degree in political management at the George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2000,
PSIA Associate Department Head Dr. Raluca Viman-Miller, who oversees our Gainesville faculty is not surprised --
"Eric is a great asset to our political science program. His is a conscientious teacher who continually makes adjustments to his classes to keep them relevant and engaging for all his students, whether brand-new freshmen or soon-to-graduate seniors. His receipt of this recognition is a credit both to him personally, and also to the entire PSIA department