Don Welch - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award of the Board of Trustees of Nebraska State Colleges, 1990.
• The Paul and Clarice Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Poetry, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1989.
• Winner of the Pratt-Heins Award for Teaching Excellence, 1988.
• The David and Tancie Martin Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Kearney,198l-89.
• Distinguished Alumni Award, University of NE at Kearney, 1984.
• Nominated 3 times for the Governor's Art Award for work with students in the Nebraska Public Schools
• Poet-in-residence, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1979–1997.
• Poet-in-residence for the Nebraska Arts Council, 1975–1988.
• Speech and reading before the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995.
• Participant in and consultant to the television documentary "The Last of the Last of the One-Room Schools," Nebraska Public Television, 1995.
• Court of Honor Award for excellence in education and the arts, the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, Omaha, NE 1997
• Board of Education, Kearney (NE) Public Schools, 1997-2000.
• Sower Award, The Nebraska Humanities Council, 2004
• The Mildred Bennett Award, The Nebraska Center for the Book, 2004