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Morrison is Marshall Award Winner—for the second year in a row!
For the second year in a row, Deborah Morrison, the Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising, earned the Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching. She is the only professor in its fifteen-year history to win the award twice.
Deborah Morrison, the SOJC's Distinguished Professor of Advertising and 2009 Marshall Award winner, with Max Radi, SOJC Standard Bearer
In nominating Morrison, Max Radi ‘09 wrote the following:
“Her involvement in our learning process extends beyond the walls of the classroom. Her office door is always open for anyone. She has reinvented innovative teaching and has helped build my creativity beyond what I could imagine.”
Says Morrison of her students: “We have some of the most talented students I've ever had in 25 years of teaching going to school right now. They are amazing.” Her teaching philosophy, she says, “revolves around that idea that we accomplish so much if we give ourselves permission to be brave.”
Morrison is currently working on a book about the creative process, working with HOW Design to compile a collection of advertising writers’ and art directors’ visualizations of the creative process. “It will be a wonderful teaching tool and a way of showing the science and the magic of making good ideas,” she said of the book, which will be out next spring.
In nominating Morrison, Radi also commented about Morrison’s advice, both inside and outside the classroom: “Professor Morrison has advised me in more than just academics, she has advised me in life. Every minute she pushes us to extend the limit of our creativity. Whenever you ask her if you should do something her reply is always, ‘do it.’"
Morrison joined the SOJC faculty in 2005. Prior to her move to Oregon, Morrison was the leader of Texas Creative at the University of Texas at Austin for eighteen years. She has judged regional, national, and international shows for the Addys and the One Show and holds many teaching honors. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for The One Club for Art & Copy in New York the One Show, the only university educator to hold that honor.
The Marshall Award is given to teachers who help students gain new insight and strengthen professional skills. Jonathan Marshall, M.S. ’62, and his wife, Maxine, established the award in 1994.
Teachers are nominated by students and then judged by a panel of emeritus professors. The award carries a cash prize of $2,000.
Previous winners include Jim Van Leuven, Kathy Campbell, Julianne Newton, Dave Koranda, Kim Sheehan, Kellee Weinhold, John Russial, Deb Merskin, Tom Bivins, Tim Gleason, Bill Ryan, Ann Maxwell, Tom Wheeler, Carl Bybee, Al Stavitsky, Rodger Lavery and Tom Hagley.
