Dr. Jerolyn Morrison Recipient of Inaugural Core Curriculum Virtue Award

Dr. Jerolyn Morrison is the recipient of the inaugural Core Curriculum Virtues Award for 2021-2022. In particular, she is being recognized for her commitment to teaching the virtue of humility. The College of Arts & Sciences' unified core curriculum is designed to "inspire moral, intellectual, and spiritual virtues.” The development of the 14 Core Virtues is the result of deliberate and careful attention from faculty like Dr. Morrison. She is being recognized for the effort she takes to shape Baylor students into people who enact humility in their studies and lives.

Dr, Morrison, a 1995 Baylor BFA alumna, moved from the island of Crete (Greece) to be a full-time temporary lecturer in Art History for several academic years beginning in 2021-2022. Her course load required that she review survey material that she had not looked at or studied in many, many years as a Minoan specialist in order to teach three core curriculum courses. Nonetheless, she persevered and succeeded. Her willingness to take on this challenge exhibited her humility. Her student evaluations were very strong and many students took a second course from her in the core. She will teach 4 core curriculum courses in the Department of Art & Art History for both semesters of 2022-23.

As an award winner, Dr. Morrison will receive (1) a commendation from the A&S Dean, (2) the Core Curriculum Emblem, (3) an emblem of the core virtue, humility, (4) a selected book on teaching the virtues, and (5) recognition in the Core Curriculum Newsletter and the A&S Magazine. In addition, her name and home department will be engraved and displayed with the emblem of the core virtue on display in the Undergraduate Studies suite of the A&S Dean’s Office. Dr. Morrison was nominated by Department Chair Dr Heidi J. Hornik-Parsons. Dr. Morrison was Dr. Hornik’s second student assistant back in the mid-1990s!