From the UC Santa Cruz 2023 Excellence in Teaching Announcement:

Excellence in Teaching Award 2023: Lindsay Knisely, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program (also received the Excellence in Teaching Award  in 2012-13)     

This recognition at the highest level promotes and illuminates the long tradition of innovative and creative teaching at UC Santa Cruz and its central importance to the university’s mission.  

Annually, the Committee on Teaching receives approximately 450 student nominations and selects 7-10 instructors for this prestigious campus-wide award from all five divisions. 

The student comments about the impact their excellent pedagogical practices have had on their lives were inspiring.  [Student comment about Lindsay Knisely:] “She cares deeply about her students as individuals and is the most compassionate and understanding teacher I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with. Her teaching and her lessons go beyond the class and she also offers to help us students out with anything outside of it. I have never met a teacher that has such a big impact on my life as much as Lindsay has.”