The Marquette Core Curriculum Committee announced Dr. Jenna Green, teaching assistant professor of English in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, as the winner of the 2025 MCC Teaching Excellence Award.
Green was praised by her nominators for her ability to weave the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, community-facing work and approaches to important ethical and social challenges into the classroom. These efforts are expanded through her work as the assistant director of Foundations Instruction and through her mentorship of other ENGL 1001 instructors.
The MCC Teaching Excellence Award was created in 2021 to honor instructors whose “effective approaches to course design and delivery have an extraordinary positive impact on students’ progress toward the MCC’s six learning outcomes.” All instructors—full-time tenure and tenure track as well full-time and part-time participating faculty — who taught at least one MCC course in 2025 were eligible for consideration.
More details on the award can be found on the MCC website.
“Apart from the high esteem in which her colleagues and students hold her efforts to bolster lessons from the classroom with justice-oriented service learning, Dr. Green strikes me as an excellent representative of the educational aspirations of the Marquette Core Curriculum because of all she does to build bridges between her work teaching Foundations in Rhetoric and broader university life,” said Dr. Michael Olson, teaching associate professor of philosophy and director of the MCC.
“She contributes to a fantastically successful professional development program within the Department of English, she is a regular participant in and facilitator of workshops organized through the Center for Teaching and Learning and is a valuable member of the Participating Faculty Committee,” Olson continued. “The strength of the MCC as I see it lies in its connections with and support of so much else of what our students discover and accomplish here at Marquette, and Dr. Green is an excellent model of that integrative ideal, both in and outside her classroom.”
Green will be recognized on Thursday, May 1, at the Père Marquette Dinner.
