Chancellor Brady Deaton tapped professor Mike McKean on the shoulder Monday morning in the middle of his 10 a.m. capstone class with a pleasant surprise. Deaton and Commerce Bank Chairman Jim Schatz surprised him with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and a $10,000 award.
McKean, along with College of Arts and Science professors Bethany Stone and Etti Naveh-Benjamin, were the three recipients of the award Monday. Two more faculty members will be presented with the honor later this week.
McKean helped create the convergence journalism emphasis area, teaches the convergence capstone course and serves as the director of the Reynolds Journalism Institute Student Competition. He was the second of three recipients to receive the award Monday. Two more faculty members will be surprised with the honor later this week.
A camera crew and several local reporters followed Deaton and Schatz, documenting the reactions of McKean and his students.
“I was totally shocked,” McKean said. “I mean, I was right in the middle of student presentations in class, and I get tapped on the shoulder, and it’s the chancellor, and that’s a bit of a surprise.”
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