2025 Carroll University Faculty Awards Announced

Author: Carroll University

Published Date: 5/7/2025

Categories: Faculty and Staff University News

Carroll University is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Faculty Awards, which recognizes outstanding faculty who have made significant contributions in the areas of teaching, scholarship, innovation, and student support.

These annual awards include the Alliher Award for teaching excellence; the Richason Award for excellence in teaching, research and educational innovation; and the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award.

Sarah Esveldt, Carroll University faculty — Dr. Sarah Esveldt

Allhiser Award: Dr. Sarah Esveldt

Dr. Esveldt has been teaching in higher education since 1997 and has been at Carroll University since 2011. Prior to teaching, she worked in many aspects of health care, including the federal government, hospital systems and managed care. Dr. Esveldt has experience in wellness, disease management, contracting and insurance billing. In a previous position, she had the unique experience of assisting with the development of a fully online undergraduate degree program, providing her a special interest in distance learning programs and pedagogy.

he developed and started an undergraduate major in healthcare administration at Carroll in 2014, which has seen steady enrollment and interest. She is passionate about teaching and her work at Carroll.

In addition to teaching, she is the Undergraduate Program Director for the Sullivan School of Business and Technology. Dr. Esveldt’s service to Carroll includes serving on the Academic Steering Committee, Faculty Executive Committee, Ethics Statement Development Committee, Faculty/Adjunct Mentor and Campus Days Volunteer and student recruitment activities.

She was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award - Carroll University Department of Business, Accounting and Economics in 2015. A past student was quoted, saying “Dr. Esveldt is great to have both as a professor and as an advisor because she truly cares about her students and their wellbeing/careers. It is refreshing to have someone that I feel I can go to for formal or informal advice, and I know my classmates agree with me.”

Jessica Boll, Carroll University faculty — Dr. Jessica Boll

Richason Award: Dr. Jessica Boll

Dr. Boll’s personal and professional experiences have afforded her the opportunity to live, work and research in several countries and continents. In addition to studying abroad in Spain as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, she spent an academic year teaching English in China and later studied Turkish language and culture at two different universities in Istanbul as part of her doctoral studies. Dr. Boll continues to frequently travel for both work and pleasure, having presented at conferences in Spain, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Portugal, Hungary, Cyprus and Germany in recent years.

She has also developed programs and traveled with Carroll students to Spain, Argentina, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, and Cuba. Dr. Boll’s service to the university includes serving on the Academic Quality Committee, Honors Center, SALUD Program, Admissions Committee, and Faculty/Staff Concerns Committee. She was awarded the Norman and Louise Allhiser Award for Teaching Excellence in 2017 and the Carroll University Ethos Award for Respect in 2018.

But perhaps her students say it best. As a student in her Composition and Conversation course put it, “Dr. Boll is one of the best professors at Carroll and more professors need to learn from her teaching methods. If I can help it, I refuse to take any Spanish class that isn’t hers. Every assignment and activity facilitates learning.”

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