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This announcement — the highest honor which the State University of New York bestows on a faculty member — was made during the Board’s May 13 meeting.
Dr. Zlotchew was one of just nine individuals across the SUNY system to receive this honor this year, and was nominated and recommended by campus colleagues as well as SUNY Interim Chancellor Dr. John B. Clark.
To be conferred, candidates must have demonstrated consistently superior mastery of teaching, outstanding service to students and commitment to their ongoing intellectual growth, scholarship and professional growth, and adherence to rigorous academic standards and requirements.
Further, to be eligible for nomination, a faculty member must have attained and held the rank of full professor for five years, completed at least three years of full-time teaching on the nominating campus and 10 years of full-time teaching in the SUNY System, and regularly carried a full-time teaching load as defined by the campus at the undergraduate, graduate, or professional level.
“SUNY faculty who receive appointment to the distinguished ranks are truly representative of the broad service contributions and the career achievements being made by faculty on each of our 64 campuses across New York State,” Chancellor Clark said. “Each of these individuals has met and exceeded the requirements for this honor and I commend the Board of Trustees for recognizing their talent and service by approving their appointments to distinguished ranks.”
In Dr. Zlotchew’s 33 years with SUNY Fredonia, he has taught the entire range of Spanish courses, from beginning Spanish to the most advanced courses. He developed and taught 13 new courses to suit the needs of students. He was recognized on the Fredonia campus in 1988 with its President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and many students have named Dr. Zlotchew as the individual who most influenced them during their Fredonia career. Student evaluations, word-of-mouth and enthusiastic letters from former students indicate that he has continued to be an excellent teacher who cares about the individual progress of each student.
Professor Zlotchew was named a SUNY Faculty Exchange Scholar in 1987. His scholarship was recognized again in 1992 when he was honored as a “Kasling Lecturer,” the highest honor SUNY Fredonia awards its faculty. Zlotchew has had 14 books published (two in 2007), as well as numerous journal articles and sections of other books. His many published translations include the works of two Nobel Laureates: Pablo Neruda and Juan Ramón Jiménez.
Zlotchew’s interviews with Jorge Luis Borges and 10 other Argentine and Uruguayan authors have appeared in the original Spanish and in his English translation in The American Poetry Review, Hispania and other journals, and in his English version in his book, Voices of the River Plate: Interviews with Writers of Argentina and Uruguay. Dr. Zlotchew has also received two grants for study at Princeton and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
