Post date: Apr 29, 2010 3:49:28 PM
John Pijanowski won the college's STAR award given to the outstanding all-around faculty member.
Pijanowski, an assistant professor of educational leadership, joined the faculty of the College of Education and Health Professions three years ago. He wrote a book, Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Educators, due out this summer. His primary research interest is in ethics and school finance, and in the past year he published seven peer-reviewed articles and presented three papers at national conferences. He also served as founding co-editor of Research and Policy Briefs for School Leaders, distributing four issues throughout the state. He developed five new courses, designed 10 courses for online delivery and served on 28 doctoral advisory committees and 25 dissertation committees. He served on two university and three college committees and chaired a faculty search.
Nomination letters described Pijanowski as the total package with the energy, work ethic and professionalism needed to continue to improve the state and national image. Pijanowski received consistently high student reviews, and one student encouraged all professors to follow Pijanowski's model of using blogs, YouTube and text resources as a way to engage students and explore content.
During his career here and at North Carolina State University and Cornell University, he has authored or co-authored more than 39 publications, made 18 presentations at international and national conferences and directed grants totaling more than $1.5 million.
Pijanowski formerly worked with K-12 students as a teacher, school principal and regional summer school director serving 21 school districts. As a college administrator, Pijanowski created and launched a partnership with 31 high schools to design and deliver teacher and staff development, dual credit programming, college transition activities and more than 100 online courses for high school students. During his tenure, this public school partnership program grew to become the largest and most comprehensive effort of its kind in the state of New York and was recognized nationally as an exemplary program.
Pijanowski received a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Master of Science degree, both in educational leadership, from Cornell University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Brown University.