Craig Blount
Distinguished Achievement Awards: Teaching Excellence
(April 29, 2003)--Craig Blount, senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, is being honored with the 2003 President's Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching Excellence (non-tenure track faculty).
Blount has been in private practice since he received his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. He has been with UTSA since 1992 where he has been a critical and constant figure in the second year design studios. When it comes to teaching student how to draw and render, he has no equal.
"He truly cares for his students and elicits from them superior work," said Julius Gribou, dean of the School of Architecture. "He is capable of taking a student who can barely hold a pencil and in the course of a semester, give that student the skills and confidence to generate beautiful images."
Blount's caring and mentoring attitude has been recognized by students and reflects in his class registrations. His classes are always the first to fill up and have the highest student evaluation survey rankings in the school. He is always willing to go above and beyond, and the results substantiate the highest level of teaching effectiveness.
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