Dr. Cheryl White received the SGA-sponsored Professor of the Year Award. All registered students are given the opportunity to submit the name of one faculty member whom they believe is most worthy of the Professor of the Year title. White is a professor in residence and development coordinator for the LSUS Institute for Human Services and Public Policy. She also teaches in the Department of History and Social Sciences.

Along with White, faculty members in the “Top 20” in Professor of the Year balloting were: Richard Arnold, instructor of criminal justice; Dr. Beverly Burden, associate professor of biology; Dr. Lisa Burke, associate professor of management; Dr. Norman Dolch, professor of sociology; Dr. Blake Dunnavent, assistant professor of history; Rhonda Failey, instructor of psychology; Kenna Franklin, instructor of sociology; Sharon Green, instructor of criminal justice; Dr. Wolfgang Hinck, assistant professor of marketing; Wayne Hogue, instructor of marketing/management; Dr. Mary Margaret Lusk, assistant professor of psychology; Wanda Moseley, instructor of mathematics; Dr. Helen Powell, assistant professor of sociology; Dr. Keitha Rogers, assistant professor of education; Dr. Helen Taylor, professor of English; Dr. Richard Thompson, associate professor of biochemistry; Dr. Tim Vines, associate professor of finance; Dr. Tara Williams-Hart, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Amy Wren, associate professor of business law.