January 29, 2008
Boyd among Virginia’s best
Radford University anthropology professor Cliff Boyd is getting one of 12 2008 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards. This is the award’s 22nd year. Boyd is the ninth RU professor and the second member of his household to receive the award. Donna Boyd, Cliff's wife and fellow anthropology professor, collected a VOFA in 2006. Read the RU press release below.
Professor Recognized Among Virginia's Outstanding Faculty
Radford University anthropology professor Cliff Boyd is a recipient of the 2008 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards, the Commonwealth's highest honor for educators at Virginia's colleges and universities.
Boyd was among the 12 recipients named today by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia for "excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration and public service." The honors are administered by SCHEV and funded by a grant from the Dominion Foundation. This year's awards mark the 22nd anniversary of the program.
"I am grateful for this recognition by SCHEV for my teaching because it brings recognition not only to me but to Radford University and the host of other excellent RU teachers I have come to know and respect over the years," Boyd said. "This award highlights the strength and quality of the RU anthropology program."
"Dr. Cliff Boyd is most deserving of a 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award," said President Penelope W. Kyle. "Throughout his distinguished career at Radford University, he has been known as a skilled and caring teacher who engages his students in archaeology by (quite literally!) requiring that they get their hands dirty alongside him in the field. Dr. Boyd's students do archaeology; they never merely study archaeology. Indeed, one of his colleagues has described the atmosphere at archeological digs Dr. Boyd supervises as 'magic' because of the students' excitement and wonder at discovery and the sense of teamwork and camaraderie that Dr. Boyd inspires."
Boyd is the ninth RU faculty member to win a SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award. Donna Boyd, Cliff's wife and fellow anthropology professor, received the honor in 2006.
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