College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Jonna Holland, associate professor of marketing, UNO was awarded the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA) which recognizes individual faculty members who have demonstrated meritorious and sustained records of excellence and creativity in teaching.

One colleague once said of Holland that she demonstrates what it means to “place students first” at UNO. In 2009, Holland received the UNO Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest teaching award available on campus, and was successfully nominated by her students to be inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society.

For the past decade, Holland has served as the College of Business Administration’s internship coordinator; conservatively, she has placed more than 1,800 students in internships. More than 75 percent of the college’s interns are offered full-time employment with their internship companies upon graduation, an important economic driver for the Omaha area. In addition to serving her students and UNO, Holland engages the Omaha community, incorporating service learning into her courses to help students understand the world more broadly.