Waubonsee Community College has announced its 2023 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty member, Evelyn Cassano, Adjunct Faculty in Adult Education. Cassano, a Waubonsee alumnus and lifelong Aurora resident, has been a member of the Adult Education Program since 2019.
“Receiving this award is an honor and the culmination of years of hard work, grading papers, preparing lessons, attending conferences, triumphing, and growing personally and professionally,” Cassano said in a news release. “It’s still hard to believe I’m being recognized when I work alongside so many dedicated educators at Waubonsee.”
Cassano says her commitment to education was instilled in her early childhood. “My parents were born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, in the late 1930s, and despite my dad only attending school until the second grade and my mother attending school until the sixth grade, they always stressed the…