Schindler establishes teaching award for graduate students

The Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures has a new award for graduate students. Established by a contribution from Roslyn Abt Schindler (German), the Roslyn and Marvin Schindler Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Students is intended to honor her late husband's and her own teaching career in German, as well as their abiding commitment to the teaching of foreign languages, literatures, and cultures.

The award recognizes one German graduate student annually for demonstrating instructional excellence. The award is also designed to elevate the attention given to teaching as part of graduate education and to support the preparation of graduate students to serve as college and university faculty. The award includes an honorarium of $500 and a citation that will be presented at the annual awards ceremony.

The Schindler Teaching Award competition is open to all graduate students who are currently enrolled in the German graduate program and who have teaching responsibilities in the German area as graduate teaching assistants or as part-time faculty. If no German graduate student is nominated or deemed eligible during a given academic year, then other CMLLC language areas will be invited to nominate eligible graduate students in a second nomination round.

Professor Marvin Schindler was a faculty member in German from 1974 to 1994, Chair of the Department of Romance and Germanic Languages from 1974 to 1983, and Director of Wayne State University's Junior Year in Germany Programs from 1975 to 1993.