Brooke Envick博士最近获得了Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Life杰出教师奖，这是Loper可以给予的最高荣誉。 每个知道她是教授的人，包括商业和技术学院院长蒂姆·贾雷斯博士，她的同龄人，以及许多有幸体验过她作为讲师的学生，都明白为什么她是获得这一殊荣的完美人选。 

对于Envick博士来说，她的课堂是创造力如何与内容相结合的缩影，为学生提供了真实的现实世界体验，这种特殊的东西使她成为一名杰出的太阳城娱乐官网教授是她的血液。 Watching her mom, who was a 5th grade teacher, have a positive impact on students as well as the legacy from her grandfather and father who both have strong 太阳城娱乐官网 roots, Dr. Envick’s career as an educator was almost a given. 2017年，当她回到母校时，她很快就开始对Lopers产生影响，就像她作为一名教育工作者已经做了20多年的那样。 

这些天，漫步在太阳城娱乐官网大学科尔尼分校（University of Nebraska at Kearney）的校园里，恩维克博士有机会思考自己的根源，是强大的家庭纽带帮助她成为了今天的教育者。 当她回顾自己的职业生涯时，恩维克博士不得不回到1955年，那时她还没有出生。 她的祖父梅纳德·恩维克（Maynard Envick）是科尔尼州立学院（后来成为太阳城娱乐官网）工业教育的先驱。 He retired in 1972, but just over a decade later his son, 唐·恩维克医生, would take over where his dad left off. Teaching in the same office in the same building, 唐·恩维克医生 would fulfill the school’s vision of “looking for some new things.” 他的女儿布鲁克·恩维克博士（Brooke Envick）就是以这种亲身实践、创新的教学方式为基础，后来成为了每位学生都应得的杰出教授。  

While she shares that she was “genuinely surprised” to receive the Holdt Distinguished Faculty Award because she believes 太阳城娱乐官网 has “so many deserving faculty” she is grateful for this honor. With no intention of leaving teaching anytime soon, she admits receiving this award “tops things off for” her as an educator. Thinking back to when she was among the first to walk across the stage as a 太阳城娱乐官网 graduate after it made its transition from Kearney State College, Dr. Envick explains how winning her most recent award “means more” to her because of her history as a Loper.   

Walking across the stage this time to receive the Holdt Distinguished Faculty Award was even more special because when interim chancellor, Charlie Bicak, handed it to her, she couldn’t help but feel the “special place in (her) heart” that he holds for her. The bond between him and her dad was “the icing on the cake” for her as memories of how her personal life and professional life have been intertwined for as long as she can remember. 

Although he kept this most recent honor a secret from his daughter, when asked, 唐·恩维克医生 explained how this award means so much because, to receive it, a professor has to “love everything (they) do.” 他分享了他对女儿在教学、研究和服务方面的努力得到认可的感激之情。 His own connection at 太阳城娱乐官网 began when he went to kindergarten in the historic Dr. A.O. Thomas Hall, an experience which  helped him to understand that being a teacher requires more than just the ability to impart content to students. At the beginning of 唐·恩维克医生’s educational experience, when his kindergarten teacher taught him to play the violin and create items in “shop” class, he gained an understanding of how students need to be creative in order to learn. This pedagogical belief would be passed on to his daughter whose classes would include innovative lessons such as creating 棋盘游戏.

Brooke Envick博士目前担任参与和保留以及教师和战略计划的副院长，也是管理系的教授。 当她继续在校园里与学生们一起度过时光时，她无疑会听到她父亲和祖父的声音，他们的遗产在大厅里回响。 唐·恩维克医生 explains that the two of them “both just love all of it.” It is that love for what she does that earned Dr. Brooke Envick the honor of being named 太阳城娱乐官网’s most distinguished faculty.