{"id":27625,"date":"2021-10-29T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=27625"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"dr-melanie-adrian-prestigious-teaching-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2021\/dr-melanie-adrian-prestigious-teaching-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Melanie Adrian Receives Prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Melanie Adrian Receives Prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Department of Law and Legal Studies faculty member, Dr. Melanie Adrian, has received Ontario&#8217;s highest teaching honour, the OCUFA Teaching Award!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Adrian&#8217;s commitment to teaching excellence is evident in her commitment to incorporating innovative pedagogy and approaches to facilitating student discussion and participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1-240x136.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/melanie-adrian-800w-1-360x204.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to being the 25th Carleton educator to win the OCUFA award since it was established in 1973, Dr. Adrian has been recognized numerous times for her teaching excellence, including as the inaugural <strong>Carleton University Chair in Teaching Innovation<\/strong> for demonstrating teaching excellence and innovation across her career (2019), as an appointee the <strong>Order of Ontario<\/strong> (2019), she was awarded the <strong>Leading Women, Building Communities Recognition Award<\/strong> (2018) and the <strong>Canada 150 Senate Medal<\/strong> (2017), for outstanding contributions to Canadian society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about why she is one of Ontario\u2019s best university teachers: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/melanie-adrian-ocufa-teaching-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carleton&#8217;s Melanie Adrian Receives Prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/637202364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">award ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Law and Legal Studies faculty member, Dr. Melanie Adrian, has received Ontario&#8217;s highest teaching honour, the OCUFA Teaching Award! 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