- Faculty Member of the Year
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Dirk was honored as the 2015 Undergraduate Large Class Faculty Member of the Year in University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. He was recognized for his ability to simultaneously entertain and effectively educate classes of 60 or more students.
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Featured Awards
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- The Neville Cramer Faculty Scholarship Award for Ethics
- Eller College of Management, 2016
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- Undergraduate Large Class Faculty Member of the Year
- Eller College of Management, 2015
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- Eller College Student Council Award, 2015, 2017
- Outstanding Contribution to Students and the Betterment of Eller College of Mgmt
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- Panhellenic Association
- University-wide Distinguished Professor Award. 2018
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- Eller College Student Council Award, 2014
- Outstanding Contribution to Students and Betterment of Eller College of Mgmt
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- Recipient of the George W. Atherton Award
- Penn State’s highest undergraduate teaching award, 2011
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- Honored as an Instrumental Faculty Member in the First Year Experience
- Seven time winner
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- Best Overall Teacher
- Smeal College of Business, Critique magazine, 2010
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- Winner, Economic Communicator Contest, 2007
- Sponsored by the Assoc of Private Enterprise Educ and the Market-Based Mgmt Institute
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- Faculty Appreciation Award
- Panhellenic-Inter Fraternity Council. 2007 and 2009
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- Profiled in the “Great Teachers in Economics” series of the Gus. A Stavros
- Center of Economic Education at Florida State University, 2005
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- Outstanding Teaching Award (Non-Tenure Line Faculty)
- College of Liberal Arts, 2005
- Awards for my classes
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- 12 x Recipient
- Outstanding teaching Award for ECON 2: Principles of Microeconomics
- 4 x Recipient
- Outstanding Teaching Award for ECON 404W: Current Economic Issues
- 3x Recipient
- Outstanding Teaching Award for ECON 351: Money and Banking
- 1 x Recipient
- Outstanding Teaching Award for ECON 4: Principles of Macroeconomics
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