Teaching Excellence Award for Part-Time Faculty

New York City Teaching Excellence Award for Part-Time Faculty

Jaclyn Kopel, EdD

Associate Dean, Pforzheimer Honors College, and Adjunct Assistant Professor

Jaclyn Kopel began at Pace as a Summer Scholar and continued as an undergraduate Honors College student in the School of Education, graduating summa cum laude. After graduation, she taught at Pace High School, the Academy for Careers in Television and Film, and Pace’s Upward Bound Program. Prior to joining the Pforzheimer Honors College as a staff member in 2013, she worked at Pace in the former Center for Academic Excellence, Undergraduate Admissions, and the Center for Urban Education. Professor Kopel teaches ancient history within the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, where she also designed a course on Egyptology, and teaches product development within the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. She currently co-teaches two of the Living Learning Communities on the NYC Campus. She has accompanied and taught Pace students in Greece, Italy, Austria, and Finland. In 2018 she served for a year as the Interim Director of the New York City Design Factory. Professor Kopel advises the NYC Honors Seidenberg students and art students. She has served on numerous university committees and task forces and has presented at many national conferences.

Pleasantville Teaching Excellence Award for Part-Time Faculty

Kerriann Stout, JD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Elisabeth Haub School of Law Political Science, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Kerriann Stout is the founder and CEO of Vinco, a one-to-one academic and professional coaching company. Professor Stout has 10 years of teaching experience in higher education at the undergraduate, master’s, and law school levels. She started in higher education in law school academic support at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law and the Vermont Graduate and Law School. Before moving into teaching and operating Vinco full-time, Professor Stout was a founding partner of Darian Stout, LLP, where she represented clients in immigration court. For many years, she was a columnist for Above the Law, writing about law school and the bar exam.

She is an Adjunct Instructor of Political Science at Pace University, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Haub Law, Boston College School of Law, and Cardozo Law school, and an Adjunct Professor of Online Learning at the Vermont Graduate and Law School. Her recent courses include: Public Policy, State and Local Government, Individual Liberties and the Bill of Rights, Leadership and Advocacy, Government Administration, Politics Through Film, Communication, Leadership and Advocacy, Legislation and Regulation, and a variety of bar exam preparation courses.

Professor Stout is a proud graduate of both Pace University (’09) and Haub Law (’13). Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is focusing on public policy and American politics with a specialization in the politics of disaster.