Sherri Silverberg Honored as 2024 Recipient of Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award

Sherri Silverberg, lecturer in accounting in the Eller College of Management, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of The Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award.

The Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award is the only student-selected teaching award at the University of Arizona. Each year, a committee of students solicit nominations from their peers across campus and then review nominations, ask faculty nominees to submit their teaching philosophy statements, conduct class visits and interview the finalists to select the winner of the award.

The award winners receive a substantive monetary award.

“Sherri’s outstanding contribution to the student experience at DRSOA comes from her years of experience in public accounting, consulting, and nonprofits that she brings to the classroom,” says Shyam Sunder, director of the Dhaliwal-Reidy School of Accountancy and Lou Myers Professor of Accounting. “However, it is the abundance of care, understanding, and compassion which she shows to her students that elevates her classroom.  She is the gold standard of the instructor that combines intellect with a big heart and a role model for all of us.”

Silverberg will be honored for receiving this award on May 9 at the Honors Convocation event.