College-Wide Recognitions
Despite our comparatively small number of faculty members and Majors, our department has received several College-wide distinctions over the years, which are summarized below in reverse chronological order.
Presidential Excellence Award Winners
Established and maintained by grants from the Baruch College Fund, the Presidential Excellence Awards are given to faculty members to stimulate and reward outstanding achievement and to enhance the College as a center of excellence. The Awards are made by the President, acting on the recommendation of the Awards Committee. The recipient receives an honorarium and a certificate, and the names of all recipients are inscribed on a plaque, which is prominently displayed.
Weissman Excellence Award Winners
The Dean’s Office at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences is recognizing faculty achievement through a new program starting in 2021-2022: the WSAS Faculty Excellence Awards. These awards mark strength in particular areas that lie at the heart of WSAS’s identity and mission: teaching our students, intellectual and artistic achievement, institutional leadership and service, and the act of mentoring students and/or peers to support their academic and professional advancement.
Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics
The prizes are funded by a gift from alumnus Charles R. Dreifus (’66, MBA ’73) in honor of Abraham J. Briloff, Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Professor of Accountancy Emeritus.
Abraham J. Briloff taught bookkeeping and stenography in high school beginning in the late 1930s, then moved on to teach accounting at Baruch College. By the late 1960s he had become a critic of unethical practice in the accounting profession. He remained affiliated with Baruch through the rest of his life. The Briloff Prize is an award in the spirit of Professor Briloff’s interest in normative ethics.
The prizes are awarded annually to a faculty member who has written an important topical article, essay or book on ethics and to a student or students who have written an outstanding research paper or essay, also as it relates to current events.
Whiting Teaching Award
From 2002-2013 Baruch College received $150,000 per year from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation to support the research and scholarly writing of excellent teachers among our junior, tenure-track faculty in the Humanities. These funds provided respite from teaching for one year or one semester so that the faculty member could focus on her/his research. The basis for the award was excellence in teaching. For the purpose of these wonderful fellowships, the College defined Humanities broadly.
Recipients were selected by a committee appointed by the Provost. The committee members, which included previous recipients of the Colleges teaching awards, observed a class session taught by each candidate.
After their fellowship period, recipients of Whiting Fellowships submitted reports on research and scholarly work carried out during the award period and publicly presented the results of their research.
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PHI Core Curriculum (‘Pathways’) Courses
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New Concentration Areas: i) World Philosophical Traditions and ii) Ethics & the Public Life
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Recent Capstone Seminar Topics
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