LEWISTON – Heather Van Mullem, a professor in Lewis-Clark State School’s Bodily, Life, Motion & Sport Sciences Division, has been chosen because the Society of Well being and Bodily Educators’ (SHAPE) 2021-22 Collegiate Educator of the Yr for the state of Idaho, the school introduced Friday.
Van Mullem was honored on the Montana and Idaho joint state convention held in Missoula from August 1-3.
Van Mullem began educating at LC State in 2005 and have become division chair in 2012, a place she held till 2019 when she determined to additionally attend legislation faculty whereas educating. She at present is attending legislation faculty part-time on the College of Idaho. Van Mullen holds a Ph.D. from the College of Kansas, a grasp’s diploma from Humboldt State and a bachelor’s diploma from Japanese Washington. She teaches primarily within the fields of sports activities research and well being schooling at LC State.
Van Mullem has gained each nationwide and faculty awards. In 2019, she was chosen because the winner of American Kinesiology Affiliation’s Jerry R. Thomas Distinguished Management Award within the Undergraduate Diploma Granting College class. In 2016, she was considered one of 25 chosen to take part within the inaugural class of The American Affiliation of State Faculties & Universities’ Rising Leaders Program. On the faculty, she has obtained the President’s Award for Excellence in Range & Cross-Cultural Understanding amongst different honors.
The aim of SHAPE Idaho is to assist college students undertake and preserve wholesome behaviors by means of well being and bodily schooling. SHAPE Idaho believes well being schooling ought to contribute on to a scholar’s potential to efficiently apply behaviors that shield and promote well being and keep away from or cut back well being dangers. Bodily schooling focuses on the cumulative improvement of health and motor abilities in addition to on enhancing psychological, social, and emotional skills by means of cooperative and group constructing actions.
