Faculty and Staff
at Green River College
Teaching Towards a Brighter Future
The Faculty and Staff at Green River College are the individuals who teach, lead, and work with the students on a daily basis, mentoring and helping students on on the path to a brighter future. Through programs like Faculty Excellence, Outstanding Staff Awards, and Distinguished Faculty Awards, the Foundation is recognizing and supporting the hard work and dreams of those around us.
Employee Giving
Green River College Foundation is able to improve students lives because of the generosity of donors, especially our faculty and staff.
Interested in becoming a donor? Most employees give by payroll deduction. Even $1 per paycheck will change lives. You can stop or modify your gift at any time. Our students often face obstacles to getting their education. Thank you for helping them to fulfill their dreams.
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Faculty Excellence
The Green River College Foundation seeks to spur innovation, promote teaching and learning, enhance the educational environment, and inspire collaborative efforts amongst faculty through the funding of Faculty Excellence projects.
The Faculty Excellence Endowment is one of the largest individual endowment funds and has grown over time, initially through availability of state matching dollars, and more recently by strong investment growth. The Foundation works with a faculty committee to conduct an annual call for proposals and faculty members submit requests ranging from individual to cross-division projects. Recent examples include the Green River Honey Bee Colonies, the Natural Resources Outdoor Classroom, the long running tie into the Green River One Book, and efforts to provide students options in math and English assessments.
Since the late 90's, the Foundation has invested over $300,000 in faculty to impact the student learning experience.
Shining a Little Brighter
The Distinguished Faculty Awards are annually awarded and are designed to recognize Green River College Faculty members who, by their teaching and their campus and community involvement, have demonstrated distinguished service to education.
The first award was made in 1985 to Marv Nelson. Marv was one of the original science faculty, teaching physics until his retirement. Marv was an innovative teacher and has been nationally recognized through work with the National Science Foundation, American Physics Society, and more. In 2007, Green River named its brand new science complex the Marv Nelson Science Center. Marv continues to give back to Green River today by serving on the Foundation Board.