On March 13, 2001 at the Regents Awards for Academic Excellence, Professor Barnard received Regents' Teaching Excellence Award from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.

The following is an excerpt from the proceedings...

By the time Ms Jane Barnard joined the Mathematics faculty at Armstrong Atlantic State University in 1980, she had already accumulated a decade of public school teaching experience--and four STAR teaching awards to show for it.  Indeed, Ms Barnard exemplifies the notion of seamless teaching and learning across levels of education, as well as across school and non-school settings.  As Ms. Barnard has stated, "I sincerely believe that every student can learn and deserves to learn substantive, meaningful mathematics—but not necessarily in the same way nor the on the same day .”  As a result of that belief, she is invariably generous with her time and expertise, whether in providing extra tutoring or advising, accompanying students to state and national math conferences, or leading Saturday workshops for public school teachers.

  Ms Barnard works to instill in her students a sense of mathematics as a way of thinking and communicating, and not merely a set of rote techniques for getting the right answer.  Toward this end, Ms Barnard has secured no fewer than 23 Eisenhower Higher Education Grants, for a total award in excess of $500,000.  Her students’ appreciation of Ms. Barnard’s efforts is reflected in her receipt of an Outstanding Faculty Award from the AASU Alumni Association.

  The impact of Ms Barnard’s teaching extends well beyond the bounds of her own campus.  For a number of years she taught a middle school mathematics class even while teaching at the University.  But perhaps the greatest gift which Ms. Barnard bestows on the field of education is the gift of the students to whom she has transmitted her love of teaching.  Linda Oliver, Chatham County’s Teacher of the Year for 2000, speaks for many of the students whom Jane Barnard has inspired to enter the teaching profession:  “She taught me to see the beauty in mathematics and helped me understand how important a role I would play in the lives of students as I introduced them to concepts of math for the first time…. It has been my mission ever since to open a world of wonder and possibility for all my students, just as she did for me.”