Dr. Bruce Marlowe wins 2021 Carolina Trustees Professorship Award
An educator who fosters critical thinking in his students has earned the prestigious 2021 Carolina Trustees Professorship Award for his work providing teacher candidates with authentic, experiential learning opportunities.
Bruce Marlowe, Ph.D., is a professor of Educational Psychology and Special Education and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Over the course of his nearly four decades in education, Dr. Marlowe has worked as a high school English teacher, special education teacher, special education consultant, interim university dean and coordinator of graduate education.
The Carolina Trustees Professorship award is presented to faculty members who are committed to teaching excellence. Three Carolina Trustees Professorship awards are given each year to tenured professors. Students, faculty, department chairs and deans from the USC system campuses submit nominations to the Office of the Provost.
“Dr. Bruce Marlowe was a natural choice for USCB to nominate for the Carolina Trustees Professorship. He has great equilibrium as a professor, with full and rich contributions in teaching, research and public service. His expertise in pedagogy benefits not just Education students, but the students they end up teaching, as well as other professors at the university and beyond,” said Dr. Eric Skipper, USCB’s Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Since Dr. Marlowe’s arrival to USCB in 2016, the Department of Education has grown tremendously, doubling its graduates by increasing retention, adding secondary certification programs in English and Biology and creating the department’s first graduate program—an M.Ed. in Literacy. Dr. Marlowe was instrumental in restoring USCB as a host site for the previously dormant Teacher Cadet Program, which now includes nine high schools in Beaufort and Jasper counties. In 2019 he co-led a study abroad experience to Finland with aspiring teachers.
His students praise Dr. Marlowe’s courses and comment frequently about the welcoming, open-ended discussion format of his classes.
Dr. Marlowe earned his doctorate in Educational Psychology and Evaluation and his master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has a bachelor’s in Philosophy from Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Dr. Bruce Marlowe, winner of the 2021 Carolina Trustees Professorship Award, leads
aspiring teachers to question assumptions about education and to create learning environments
that foster curiosity.