Barry V. Qualls, one of the most respected and beloved professors at Rutgers, has added another major award to his distinguished list of accomplishments: he has been named the 2006 New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Qualls, a 35-year veteran professor of English literature and the interim vice president for undergraduate education on the New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus, joins professors from other states honored for their extraordinary dedication to teaching undergraduate students and their influence on teaching. Recipients are selected by panels of professors, deans, education writers, students, and representatives from government, educational foundations, and associations.

Qualls has devoted his career to undergraduate education at Rutgers, where he is a popular professor admired for his teaching and mentoring work. From 2004 until earlier this year, he chaired the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, a group of faculty, staff, and students appointed by President Richard L. McCormick to thoroughly examine and then reorganize undergraduate education at Rutgers' New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus. Read the full news release.







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1. Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle's Collected Works: Volumes 1 and 2. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867.
2. First edition of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
3. Charles Dickens in 1861 at age 49.
4. Barry V. Qualls, photo by Nick Romanenko, 2006.
5. Charlotte Brontë, detail of chalk drawing by George Richmond, 1850.
6. Huzzah, from the Oxford English Dictionary: A. int. A shout of exultation, encouragement, or applause; a cheer uttered by a number in unison; a hurrah . 1830 C. WORDSWORTH Jrnl. in Overton Life (1888) 50 Winchester beat Eton by sixty runs, huzza.