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Yorkville University Celebrates Inaugural Recipients of the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence

A composite image of the four Awardees' individual headshots.
Top-left: Mona Hoorvash (Liberal Arts, Yorkville BC); top-right: Deborah Seabrook (Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Yorkville NB); bottom-left: Erin Martyn (Interior Design, Yorkville ON); bottom-right: Rahul Jain (Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Yorkville NB).

We at The Centre are so excited and proud to boost the signal of the Yorkville University President’s Award for Teaching Excellence!

Yorkville University recently announced the four inaugural recipients of the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence – an annual award celebrating faculty who exemplify outstanding dedication to student learning and academic excellence.

The newly launched award program, which recognizes faculty for their contributions to “inspiring and facilitating learning in ways that leave a lasting and meaningful impact on students,” named Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology faculty Rahul Jain and Deborah Seabrook, Bachelor of Interior Design professor Erin Martyn, and Associate of Arts instructor Mona Hoorvash as its inaugural winners.

Read the full Press Release to meet our incredible faculty members, including this year’s slate of Award Honourees, too!

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

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Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 10+ years’ experience. In addition to working at the CTEI, Matthew serves as the Vice-Chair of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). Before joining the CTEI, Matthew was an Educational Developer in the Teaching Commons at York University; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by STLHE for this work.