Marquette Spanish professor receives teaching excellence award
MILWAUKEE – Barry Velleman, professor of Spanish at Marquette University, recently received the university’s highest teaching honor, the Robert and Mary Gettel Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.Velleman, of Wauwatosa, Wis., was nominated by his colleagues and former students who highlighted Velleman’s use of humor, attention to detail, modesty and commitment to student learning. “He remains a model by which I measure the effectiveness of my teaching and my commitment to my students,” said a former student, now a tenure-track faculty member himself. He has the humanist’s insight that how we use language is an essential piece of who we really are as persons,” said John Pustekovsky, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages Literatures. “His influence on his students is rooted in a commitment to them as persons.”
“As a foreign language educator, I believe that the fundamental goal of study is the development of lifelong learners who value the language and culture and can use what they know in a multilingual/multicultural world,” said Velleman. “It is my goal to share with others my own enthusiasm for my field.”
Velleman teachers intermediate Spanish, advanced oral skills, Spanish phonetics and phonology, Spanish grammar, graduate applied linguistics, and the history of the Spanish language. He earned his bachelor’s degree from State College at Boston and his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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