OSCQR Awards Committee
2026: Alejandra M. Pickett, PhD, Allene Slating, Matthew Murphy, April Higgins, Karen Caldwell, Doris Ostrander 2025: Alejandra M. Pickett, Erin Maney, Allene Slating
OSCQR Award – Honorable Mention
The SUNY Online Teaching OSCQR Honorable Mentions recognize outstanding contributions to online course quality that reflect meaningful, innovative, and sustained engagement with the OSCQR rubric…
Honorable Mention – 2026
In addition to this year’s award recipients, the OSCQR Awards Review Committee recognizes several outstanding nominations that reflect meaningful contributions to online course quality, faculty…
Research Impact – Sally Baldwin
Research Impact Award, Dr. Sally Baldwin, Foothill College Dr. Sally Baldwin, Health Instructor in the Biological and Health Sciences Division at Foothill College, has made significant scholarly…
Institutional Excellence – SUNY Farmingdale
Institutional Excellence Award, SUNY Farmingdale State College – Recipients Dr. Brandi So, Director, Department of Distance Learning and Nicole Garrett, Instructional Designer. SUNY Farmingdale State College has…
Program Innovation – Capostosto & Puccio
2026 Program Innovation Award, Brooke Capotosto, Instructional Designer, Dr. Gerard Puccio, SUNY Distinguished Professor & Department Chair, Creativity and Change Leadership Program, SUNY Buffalo State University. The Creativity…
Individual Achievement – Kathleen D’Alfonso
2026 Individual Achievement Award – Kathleen D’Alfonso, PhD Candidate & Adjunct Online Instructor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, SUNY University at Buffalo and Departments of Anthropology/History/Political…
Institutional Excellence Award – SUNY Adirondack
Institutional Excellence Award, SUNY Adirondack – Recipient Doris Ostrander, Coordinator, Teaching and Learning Collaborative SUNY Adirondack has creatively overcome significant challenges to enhance the quality…
Program Innovation Award – Dr. Karen E. Caldwell
2025 Program Innovation Award – Karen Caldwell, EdD, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at SUNY Potsdam Dr. Karen Caldwell at SUNY Potsdam has incorporated OSCQR into online…
Individual Achievement Award – April Higgins
2025 Individual Achievement Award – April Higgins, Instructional Designer at Delaware Technical Community College April Higgins, an instructional designer at Delaware Technical Community College, has made…