361° Awards

DePauw’s 361° has received several national awards and recognition, including:

The 2003 EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning.  The EDUCAUSE Award is the most significant honor given to a college or university for the use of technology to transform and enhance teaching and learning, and had never before been presented to a non-research, non-doctoral university.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) named DePauw a New Media Center for its 361° initiatives in spring 2003.

DePauw was named as one of America’s Most Connected Campuses in a study published by Forbes magazine and compiled by The Princeton Review.

The article “The 361º Model for Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology” was awarded the 2005 EDUCAUSE Quarterly “Contribution of the Year Award.”  Authored by Dennis A. Trinkle, former chief information officer at DePauw, it describes DePauw’s award-winning technology initiatives.

The 361° Web site and promotional video (produced by students) received national awards recognizing them as the best of their kind in the United States at the ACM-SIGUCCS Fall 2004 Conference.

DePauw’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center was selected as one of only four centers in the nation selected by in the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) in its study of effective GIS support models in liberal arts institutions.  NITLE staff visited DePauw during spring 2007 to investigate the University’s facilities and support for GIS, and interview GIS, FITS and library staff, faculty, and students who support and/or use GIS.

The Information Technology Associates Program (ITAP) program was highlighted among the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives “Innovations & Implementations as an exemplary practice in teaching and learning in fall 2005.

Professor Dave Berque, chair of computer science and Tenzer Family University Professor of Instructional Technology was awarded the 2007 Mira Techpoint Award for "Education Contribution in Technology," for his efforts to create the software, DyKnow Vision, a pen-based technology that is now being used in classrooms around the country.