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Awarding Educators

February 23, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 8

In her editorial, Bibiana Campos Seijo seems surprised that modern university chemistry disfavors teaching, focusing instead on research activities (C&EN, Jan. 12, page 2). How can this be, she laments.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, especially someone entrenched in the ACS hierarchy. I speak here of ACS’s mantra, “Education is a priority.” Yet the vast majority of ACS awards are for research progress. Of the few extant awards for teaching, how many are for teaching excellence at four-year Ph.D.-granting institutions?

Steven A. Hardinger
Los Angeles

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