{"id":108955,"date":"2026-04-09T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=108955"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:47:00","slug":"goodman-profs-honoured-for-dedication-to-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/04\/goodman-profs-honoured-for-dedication-to-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodman profs honoured for dedication to student success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodman School of Business Professors Mark Julien and Danny Cho have been recognized for their exceptional teaching and the genuine care they show their students.<\/p>\n<p>The pair recently received student-voted teaching awards\u00a0at the annual Goodman Student Success and Faculty Appreciation Celebration held March 30 in the Goodman Student Success Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Cho, who received the graduate teaching award, said he enters the classroom each day with the goal of helping Brock students transform as both scholars and people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to make sure our students are ready for the marketplace,\u201d he said. \u201cI try to minimize the gap between what they are learning in the classroom and what they experience in industry when they graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julien, who received the undergraduate teaching award, said he was humbled by the honour and that his dedication for teaching comes from his passion for human resources (HR).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that HR, when done right, can have a profound impact on an organization and I want students to understand the importance of my profession,\u201d Julien said. \u201cI also recognize the significant challenges this generations of students have experienced so I want to create a classroom that fosters support, critical thinking, engagement and problem solving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the celebration, Dean Barry Wright acknowledged the success and contributions of student clubs, competition teams and their faculty advisors, whose work greatly enhanced the Goodman student experience.<\/p>\n<p>Wright also noted the impact fundraising efforts from the Business Students\u2019 Association (BSA) had on both the Brock and broader Niagara communities. Over the past year, the BSA launched Goodman\u2019s first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/06\/brewing-a-legacy-goodman-to-toast-future-success-at-pre-convocation-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">class gift initiative<\/a>, held a fundraiser for the gift during the Fall Term, raised nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/in-focus\/taking-strides-for-gillians-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2,000 for Gillian\u2019s Place<\/a> and donated $3,200 towards Community Care.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: Goodman, Goodman School of Business, Student-Voted Teaching Awards, Danny Cho, Mark Julien, Business Students\u2019 Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodman School of Business Professors Mark Julien and Danny Cho have been recognized for their exceptional teaching and the genuine care they show their students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":108959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,1],"tags":[1607,3872,2852,594,4003,15101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108972,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108955\/revisions\/108972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}