UH Hilo Chancellor’s Awards
Chancellor’s Award Winner
Barbara Leonard
Barbara Leonard, an associate accounting professor, is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award. She is the co-winner of this award with Sevki Erdogan, a computer science professor.
Leonard chaired the UH Hilo Faculty Congress from 2006 through 2008 and achieved an important milestone for the congress by thoroughly revising the UH Hilo General Education program. She was also the person to present the general education proposal to the UH Council of Chief Academic Officers
She brings her accounting expertise to the deliberations of the Long Range Budget Planning Committee and has also served on the tenure and promotion review committee as well as many committees for the College of Business and Economics.
Leonard has done a lot to strengthen faculty governance and ensure that UH Hilo works together to make it the best university it can be.
The Chancellor’s Awards honor outstanding service by UH Hilo employees.
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