SSU Strategic Planning Fact Book
Staff Awards, Honors, & Research Series Index (1000)

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1001       Distinguished (Teaching) Professor
1002       Callaway (Research) Professor

"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.  Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen... [It is] a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it."

--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) Flow: The Psychology
of Optimal Experience