Congratulations to Professor Ari Petrides Jimenez for receiving the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD ) Award. The NISOD Excellence Awards were established in 1991 to provide NISOD member colleges with an opportunity to recognize individuals doing extraordinary work on their campuses. Since then, more than 30,000 recipients have been honored with the Award by their colleges.

Ari researches ways to incorporate experiential and community-based learning into Statistics courses by using community engagement and hands-on experience to address course outcomes. Incorporating service and experiential learning into Statistics courses can increase equity by allowing students who come into these courses with anxiety about the material to demonstrate their learning through a critical reflection project. These techniques complement homework and assessments with hands-on, meaningful experiences; showing the applicability of course content followed by critical reflection of a social or environmental issue. These techniques allow students to find new ways to connect with the class material so that they may find deeper understanding of the course content. Examples of these work include students performing data analysis for Brown Hope and a sampling data project and data analysis in collaboration with the Immigrant Mutual Aid Coalition.