{"id":1871,"date":"2021-10-07T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:37:25","slug":"dr-steve-grice-named-sun-belt-faculty-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/07\/dr-steve-grice-named-sun-belt-faculty-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Steve Grice named Sun Belt Faculty of the Year."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Steve Grice, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/business\/departments\/accountancy\/\">School of Accountancy<\/a>, has been named the Sun Belt Conference Faculty of the Year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grice was selected from a list of twelve finalists submitted by each of the Sun Belt schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You feel like you make a contribution and do something good to to help these students and to get honored like this it does mean a lot,&#8221; says Grice. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a big pat on the back and it&#8217;s neat to to feel like somebody recognized you as doing a good job especially when it&#8217;s something that you enjoy doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award, which is given annually, recognizes a faculty member from each Sun Belt institution who has a passion for teaching engaging and inspiring students while also separating themselves from their peers outside of the classroom by regularly supporting and displaying enthusiasm for the athletics department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always admired the student athletes at TROY,&#8221; says Grice. &#8220;The things they have to navigate in their academic studies along with the division one athletics it&#8217;s a challenge. They have a lot of out of town travel. They have practice schedules. A lot of them they&#8217;re practicing when I&#8217;m sleeping.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Simon&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Steve Grice, Director of Troy University&#8216;s School of Accountancy, has been named the Sun Belt Conference Faculty of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>Grice was selected from a list of twelve finalists submitted by each of the Sun Belt schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You feel like you make a contribution and do something good to to help these students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/07\/dr-steve-grice-named-sun-belt-faculty-of-the-year\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[706,705,740,704,84],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-faculty-of-the-year","tag-school-of-accountancy","tag-simon-schuessler","tag-steve-grice","tag-sun-belt-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}