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Chair of the Department of Sociology, Dr. Lynn Appleton, who was the youngest faculty member to win Distinguished Teacher of the Year at the time (1989), spent her time at FAU as an outspoken and passionate supporter of women’s rights, both theoretically and practically. Part of a tenure controversy covered nationally by the Washington Post and locally by the Sun Sentinel in the late 1980s, she was a recipient of a massive salary increase as a result of a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the school. Dr. Appleton was a founder of both the Women’s Studies and the University Honors program. You can read her scholarly book review of David Wagner’s “The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice” here.
Adored by black students and integral to their academic success throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Deborah “Mikki” Minney provided incredible insights to the admissions process at FAU. She was a Minority Student Services Director, assistant provost, and Director of Freshman Advising Services. FAU gave Minney the Golden Key for the International Honor Society and the Florida Board of Education recognized her as an Outstanding Minority Educator. FAU also gave her Outstanding Freshman Advocate in the same year. Another winner of the Distinguished Teacher award, Minney was not only well loved but also well lauded. Her implementation of the academic advising and student support programs significantly reduced dropout rates, making her an invaluable asset to the school’s academic success rate.