This award is conferred to individuals who make significant and innovative improvement in instruction or service to students. The award honors Kaplan, who retired in 1993 as vice chancellor of the UW Colleges. Kaplan was committed to improving the quality of instruction and service to students at the UW Colleges’ campuses.

Recipients of the award receive a $250 grant that can be used to further enhance their creative approaches to education. The UW-Fond du Lac Foundation provides a
matching grant.

Michael Nofz, sociology professor, is recognized for his research in service-learning and for his leadership in encouraging colleagues to incorporate servicelearning opportunities into their courses by offering workshops and by integrating it into his own classes. He promoted several service-related events including National Literacy Action Week, First Book and Talk Like a Pirate Day to enrich the student experience and increase community awareness of service-learning.

John Scotello, art professor, created a ground-breaking design project in which students studied books as expressive art - constructing medieval manuscript illuminations using only techniques, theories and recipes from the Middle Ages. The students prepared their own skin parchments, inked with quill pens and embellished with gold leaf and hand-ground paints. He has created a project handbook which will be used by various University of Wisconsin schools as well as private universities.

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