2007 Winners
 Dr. Art Cox:
College of Business Administration; Real Estate
Dr. Art Cox has served on the board of directors of the Waterloo Rotary Club and is currently the club's president-elect. He served on the Finance Committee of the Cedar Valley United Way for about 10 years. He has been involevd with and authored research projects with Homeland Inc., a nonprofit housing association based in Allison, Iowa, which have received national attention in the areas of rural housing and employer assisted housing programs.
Dr. Cox has nurtured hundred's of students and supported their career paths into the real estate field. The Real Estate program is one of the fastest growing and most successful educational pursuits at the University of Northern Iowa. Dr. Cox is the driving force behind that success. His name within our industry goes far beyond our state's borders and his students now hold key positions within the real estate field throughout the country.
 Dr. Gayle Pohl:
College of Humanities and Fine Arts; Communication-Public Relations
Dr. Gayle Pohl has always encouraged her students to learn by actually experiencing public relations. Her unique teaching style has students working in the community every semester.
The student-run firm, PRide, under Dr. Pohl's direction, works with several local organizations and businesses throughout the academic year. Examples include KBBG, Junior Achievement and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. They also participate in the Bateman competition, which allows UNI PRSSA members to compete with students across the nation. This year's competition is focused on family caregivers. UNI's chapter worked with the National Family Caregivers Association and the Hawkeye Valley Area Agency on Aging to host an educational and rewarding event for family caregivers in the Cedar Valley.
 Dr. Kathleen Scholl:
College of Education; Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services
Dr. Kathleen Scholl has been deeply engaged with Together We Play (TWP), which is an inclusive support service at the Family YMCA of Black Hawk County that works as a catalyst to build relationships between families with children with disabilities and agencies that provide recreation and after-school programs. From the beginning Dr. Scholl has been an integral part of the sustainability and vitality of this program.
Dr. Scholl's expertise in inclusive recreation has expanded the school of thought of Therapeutic Recreation within Leisure, Youth and Human Services division. She has also influenced a number of Cedar Valley community recreation providers to expand their thinking on ways that they can provide recreation services to all members of the community regardless of ability. She actively seeks projects with community agencies that will provide UNI students with professional experience. Dr. Scholl also uses current examples and hands-on experiences that help create conceptual relevance for her students on the topics she teaches at UNI.
 Dr. Mark Grey:
College of Social and Behavioral Science; Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
Dr Mark Grey has defined his academic career by his intense passion and commitment to community engagement. In 1999, he founded the Iowa Center on Immigrant Leadership and Integration (ICILI) at the University of Northern Iowa.
Dr. Grey's ICILI program is one of the most progressive and unique education and outreach organizations in the United States. Since its founding, it has worked with more than 12,000 Latino immigrants, Bosnians, East Africans, Hassidic Jews, Eastern Europeans, and Southeast Asians around the state, as well as with the professionals and host community residents that serve them. As a leader in the civil rights fields and a specialist in applied anthropology, Dr. Grey has presented at hundreds of international, national, regional, state, and local conferences and trainings on the topics of tolerance, migration, cultural competency, and diversity. ICILI is helping to improve social equity for thousands of low-income minorities, immigrants, and rural farm families in the state.
 Dr. Mark Fienup:
College of Natural Science; Computer Science
Dr. Mark Fienup has served as a volunteer mentor for the Cedar Falls High School Robotics Team throughout the past three years. He helps the students learn the necessary background to engage in robotics and coaches them as they build robots which they enter in a statewide competition. Our broader community benefits by having more students engaged in math, science, and technology, which increases the likelihood that they will pursue further study in these areas.
UNI students benefit because Mark's work with high school students allows him to explore new approaches to teaching, and to expand his knowledge of a discipline such as robotics, in the small-group setting of the club. Mark brings this experience and knowledge back with him to the UNI classroom.
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