WASHINGTON, D.C. – Winthrop University Professor Michael Matthews recently received a 2023 Teaching Excellence Award in Healthcare Management and Leadership from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA).
He and other teaching award recipients will be recognized during the July 1 awards presentation session at AUPHA’s annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. The awards were announced in April.
Matthews, who is a professor of management and director of Winthrop’s healthcare management program, said he was proud to be given the award.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the premier professional organization in healthcare management education for teaching excellence in healthcare management and leadership,” Matthews said. “AUPHA is the best professional organization I have been associated with, and it is quite frankly baffling to me to receive this award given the incredible colleagues from great universities and colleges that have healthcare management programs.”
Matthews joined the Winthrop faculty in 2005. His leadership in the growth of student enrollment, curriculum development, healthcare management program (HCMT) certification, certificate programs, practitioner constituent networking, private donor gifting and student placement distinguish him as the exemplar of the accomplishments befitting an AUPHA Teaching Excellence Award winning professor, said his department chair, Keith Robbins.
Winthrop’s healthcare management program is the only AUPHA-certified undergraduate program in the state of South Carolina. It also is the only program in the College of Business Administration that requires an internship and is successful because participating companies and organizations reach back out every year for more interns.
“Dr. Matthews has successfully placed 100 percent of students in internships since his arrival at Winthrop,” Robbins said. “This has resulted in 90 percent of our graduates in graduate school or jobs upon graduation.”
Matthews was one of two professors tapped for the Teaching Excellence Award in Healthcare Management and Leadership, sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). The other was Michael Rozier of Saint Louis University.
About AUPHA
AUPHA is a global network of colleges, universities, faculty, individuals and organizations dedicated to the improvement of healthcare delivery through excellence in healthcare management and policy education. Its mission is to foster excellence and innovation in health management, policy education and scholarship. It is the only non-profit entity of its kind that works to improve the delivery of health services – and thus the health of citizens – throughout the world by educating professional managers at the entry level. AUPHA’s membership includes the premier baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral programs in health administration in the United States, Canada and around the world.
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