Dr. Mimi Benjamin (left) and IUP President Michael Driscoll (right)
At the May 9 University Faculty Achievement Awards Dinner, Mimi Benjamin received the University Senate’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award, which recognizes significant contributions to the university community or to the recipient’s professional community at large.
Benjamin joined the IUP faculty in fall 2013 after 19 years as a student affairs administrator. Her service to the university includes serving on the University-Wide Promotion Committee, University Senate, Strategic Plan Implementation Committee, Working Group IV for Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccreditation, Center for Teaching Excellence Leadership Team, Living-Learning Executive Team, and multiple search and awards committees. She chairs the Senate Committee on Student Affairs and serves as co-coordinator of SAHE’s Alumni Connect Mentoring Program.
Benjamin has published extensively on living-learning communities, including as coauthor of two books, editor of another, and coeditor of a special issue of Learning Communities Research and Practice. She also was coeditor of two editions of a book on case studies in ethics for student affairs professionals. She is active in the two leading student affairs professional associations, NASPA and ACPA. With NASPA, she has served as a faculty mentor and graduate student case study judge. Within ACPA, she co-led the ACPA Media Board and has been a Diamond Honoree and recipient of the Annuit Coeptis Award for senior professionals.