Terry earns Distinguished Service Award
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Herb Terry, professor emeritus of telecommunications, has been awarded the Indiana University Bloomington Distinguished Service Award for the 2014-15 academic year. Terry retired in 2012 but was elected president of the Bloomington Faculty Council for 2013-14.
First awarded in 1986, the Distinguished Service Award recognizes faculty leadership and dedication within the university, a discipline, and/or the community. Recipients are selected by a faculty committee under the auspices of the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs.
“Herb Terry has been the face, the voice and the heart of faculty governance at IU Bloomington for decades,” said Tom Gieryn, vice provost for faculty and academic affairs. “I know well, from close personal experience, how deftly he negotiates the best interests of the university. He is a model for getting things done, and I cannot imagine a more deserving recipient of this award.”
Terry joined the Department of Telecommunications in the College of Arts and Sciences as a lecturer in the fall of 1974. He was first elected to the Bloomington Faculty Council in 1983. He served many terms as a member and leader of the council and its committees and previously served as president in 2008-09. He also served the University Faculty Council, the faculty governance unit for all IU campuses, and led it as co-secretary in 2008-09 and 2013-14.