We are delighted to share that Dr. Kathleen Hall has been awarded a 2024–25 UBC Killam Teaching Prize!
This prestigious award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, as nominated by students, colleagues, and alumni. The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually, and recipients are honoured at UBC’s graduation ceremonies.
This year, Kathleen was one of only six in the Faculty of Arts for 2024. Her nomination and supporting letters (from no fewer than TWELVE students, mentees and colleagues) emphasized the novel content and methods that have made Kathleen both a highly popular and a highly effective teacher. As many newsletter readers will know, for example, she has implemented multiple accessible ways to include the study of signed languages in undergraduate P-side courses, LING200 and 311 courses.
Her nomination letter emphasized her ability to reach “not only of the gifted student, the overachieving student, but also the skeptical student, the reluctant student AND the average student. Kathleen inspires passion and curiosity in those students at the top of the grading curve, leading them to take further courses and ultimately pursue graduate degrees in Linguistics and careers in academia [… but also] engages, supports and extends the minds of students who didn’t expect to enjoy the course, or were prepared for it to be too hard – and not by simplifying the material.”
Read more about Kathleen’s teaching and the award in the Faculty of Arts Profile here.
Congratulations to Kathleen on this well-deserved recognition of her outstanding contributions to teaching and student learning!
