Baylor University Business Professor Receives Excellence in Teaching Award

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WACO, Texas (Sept. 11, 2014) -- Andrea Dixon, Ph.D., the Frank and Floy Smith Holloway Endowed Professor in Marketing in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, has been awarded the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Marketing Association Sales SIG.
Dixon who serves as Executive director of both Baylor’s Center for Professional Selling and Keller Center for research was recognized for her contributions for knowledge creation work and excellence in sales teaching.
Dixon was nominated by Ellen Bolman Pullins, PhD. at the University of Toledo.
“Andrea has created a business atmosphere for the students which clearly challenges them and prepares them at a very high level for their future careers,” Pullins wrote. “The responses from students, the way that they indicate she has touched them personally, is the best evidence that she truly deserves this award.”
Dixon’s high expectations for excellence have earned her an impressive resume of accomplishments and awards. AMS Outstanding Marketing Teacher, Top Sales Coach and Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning are just a few examples.
“It humbles you that they would take the time to nominate you—they’re busy people, both the students and the alumni. It also encourages you. I work hard on their behalf. It gives me the fuel to keep going,” Dixon said.
Dixon explained that she accepted the award on behalf of Richard Skinner, a professor she had as an undergraduate at Kent State University. According to Dixon, Skinner took the time to invest in a mentoring relationship that went above and beyond teaching inside the classroom. Dixon and Skinner retain their relationship to this day, discussing career goals and visiting as family friends, she said.
“That’s been my vision of what teaching means to me. Once you have me in a class situation, you’re forever my student,” Dixon said.
Dixon joined the Baylor faculty in 2009. Prior to that, she served on faculty at University of Cincinnati.
by Sarah Czerwinski, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805
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