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Terrell, an accounting professor at the University of Central Oklahoma, was recently named the 2008 Oklahoma Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Terrell said he found his career when he discovered he was passionate about teaching, and he said he tries to pass that philosophy on to his students.

"Teaching has been a godsend to me. I absolutely fell in love with it,” he said.

Terrell teaches auditing and ethics and financial accounting. He started teaching part time at the university in 1975 and became a full-time professor in 1985. Terrell said he likes to serve as a mentor to students, helps them prepare for exams to become certified public accountants and is the faculty representative for the accounting club. All of that doesn’t stop him from telling a few jokes in classes to keep students on task, he said.

"I use a lot of humor in my classroom,” Terrell said.

Roger Webb, UCO president, said Terrell deserves recognition for the excellence he shows daily at UCO.

"He is a superior example of the deep commitment our faculty and staff have to providing a quality educational experience for our students,” Webb said.

Dawn Marks, Staff Writer