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Metro State faculty members were selected as 2025 Outstanding Educators by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees as part of the 2025 Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence. The Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement of the system’s college and university teaching and service faculty.
Metro State congratulates its Awards for Excellence recipients, along with those recipients from our sister institutions. These deserving educators and service faculty were formally honored at a luncheon on April 16, 2025.
Queen Booker
Management Information Systems, College of Business and Management
Dr. Booker invests her time and expertise in guiding students to success as a research mentor, graduate program director for management information systems, and a teacher who stays ahead of rapid discipline changes.
Sara Lenertz
Mathematics, College of Sciences
Whether teaching on campus or in correctional facilities, Professor Lenertz excels at making math tangible, using examples from social justice issues and politics to help students learn more about the world while learning math.
Sumiko Otsubo
Ethnic, Gender, Historical, and Philosophical Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Otsubo has developed and co-developed six history courses, brings experts into her classrooms, has received grants for students to study abroad, and encourages student participation in the Minnesota Undergraduate Scholars Program.
