Excerpt from the official
profile released by the White House:
Ruiz
has also earned accolades for his teaching, including being named U.S.
professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching in 1995 and receiving UCLA’s Distinguished Teacher Award in 2008. He
describes his teaching style as “frantic, hectic.” As a graduate student, Ruiz
admired professors like Carl Schorske, who could deliver an elegant
well-crafted lecture from behind a podium. “I can’t do that. It’s not in my
abilities,” he says. “I engage the students by combining the personal with the
scholarly.”
He also doesn’t use notes. “I can’t explain how
it happens. I walk into the classroom. I am in an absolute panic even after
thirty-nine years of doing this. And then something possesses me for one hour
and fifteen minutes and I cannot stop. I am like the Energizer Bunny.”
Full story on Ruiz and other
medal winners in Inside Higher Ed at: http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/02/13/obama-announces-2011-national-humanities-medals#ixzz1mHNQqATJ
White House announcement at http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20120210.html
Profile of Prof. Ruiz as part of the announcement at http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/2011_Medalists.html#No7
UCLA announcement at http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-wins-national-humanities-228694.aspx
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