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Central Michigan University Professor Carl Lee has been recognized as one of the states three recipients of the Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year award.

This award recognizes the outstanding contributions and dedication exhibited by the faculty from Michigans 15 public universities to the education of undergraduate students.

The Academic Affairs Officers committee of the Michigan Association of State Universities will recognize the nominees and recipients of this annual award on April 15 during a luncheon at the Lansing Center. The other two winners are Michigan State University Professor Vashti Sawtelle and Wayne State University Professor Sandra Gonzales.

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Professor Lee is among the award nominees who continue to bring new scholarship and innovation in teaching and learning to Michigans public universities, said Dr. Daniel J. Hurley, CEO of the Michigan Association of State Universities. These professors have the highest dedication to their students, ensuring that they are well prepared to make a meaningful impact in their careers and in their communities.

Dr. Carl Lee is Founding Chair and Professor of Department of Statistics, Actuarial and Data Sciences at Central Michigan University, where he has taught for more than 38 years and developed undergraduate and graduate programs and taught courses ranging from introductory to Ph.D. level courses. Dr. Lee earned his B.S. in agronomy from National Taiwan University, his M.A. in mathematics at West Florida State University and his Ph.D. in statistics at Iowa State University.

He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and a recipient of the Haimo Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Michigan Section of the MAA, CMUs University Distinguished Service Award, and numerous other honors.

Dr. Lees dedication to undergraduate education goes beyond his classroom rapport with students. He has consistently been innovative in his approach to pedagogy, emphasizing projects, hands-on activities, cooperative learning, and exercises, or what he calls a PACE model. He has authored an extensive array of scholarly papers on the topic of teaching and learning in the field of statistics. Since statistics is considered by many students to be among the most difficult subjects, this motivates Dr. Lees interest in conducting research to investigate how students learn quantitative concepts, the misconceptions and difficulties encountered, as well as the effect of technology on learning. Among his 150 publications, 42 papers are associated with teaching and student learning.

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Dr. Lee has also made substantial contributions to the teaching of statistics at CMU, developing statistics programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels and nationally through his involvement with ASAs Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiatives, and the National Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.At CMU, he helped design the undergraduate statistics and actuarial science program and also initiated and developed a graduate certificate program in data mining, the MS in Applied Statistics and Analytics, and completely revised the doctoral curriculum.For the past two years, Dr. Lee has worked tirelessly with colleagues from across the university to create the most interdisciplinary program on campus in data science.

The monumental task has involved coordinating a new degree and major with colleagues from four colleges and nine academic departments, continuing to inspire fellow faculty and administrators at CMU.

Throughout his career, Dr. Carl Lee has consistently demonstrated his devotion to students and high-quality undergraduate education through his engaging classroom approach, innovative use of pedagogy, high quality scholarship in teaching and learning of statistics, and his contributions to program development and curricular reform at CMU and in his professional field, said Richard Rothaus, Central Michigan University Interim Executive Vice President and Provost.

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