Awards

President's Award for Distinguished Teaching - 2025

About Clark Barwick

Clark Barwick, Ph.D., is Co-Director and Teaching Professor in Communication, Professional, and Computer Skills at IU’s Kelley School of Business, where he has taught strategic communication since 2011. Dr. Barwick also serves as Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Teaching at the Hutton Honors College, and for five years, he served as Associate Director for IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET).

At the Kelley School of Business, Dr. Barwick primarily teaches business writing, and he is co-author of Strategic Business Writing (Indiana University Press, 2021). Through his relationship-based and inclusive pedagogy, Dr. Barwick has dedicated his teaching to helping business students develop strong communication skills in order to succeed in their academic and professional careers. Dr. Barwick has advised numerous Kelley Honors capstone projects, and he has served as faculty advisor for many Kelley student organizations. Dr. Barwick is an Academic Fellow in Kelley’s Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability, and he was a member of Kelley’s inaugural Equal Justice Initiative Leadership Collaborative.

In his role as Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Teaching at the Hutton Honors College, Dr. Barwick has helped design and launch Hutton’s Notation Gateway courses “Education and Its Aims” and “Knowledge Production and the University,” which students typically take during their first year. Dr. Barwick is a recognized leader in the study of the global coffee trade, and since 2017, he has offered a popular Hutton seminar that introduces students to the economic, scientific, cultural, and human rights aspects of coffee. In 2021, Dr. Barwick was honored as one of the Sprudge 20, which annually celebrates global gamechangers in the coffee industry.

From 2019 to 2024, Dr. Barwick served as FACET’s Associate Director for the Bloomington campus. In this role, Dr. Barwick directed membership and programming, and he collaborated with IU faculty from across the state to promote innovative and inclusive teaching. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Barwick was a member of FACET Bloomington’s Leadership Institute, which worked to improve undergraduate retention and provide IU faculty with resources for assisting students facing academic, economic, and social challenges. Dr. Barwick was inducted to FACET in 2018.

At Indiana University, Dr. Barwick has advocated for student success through his involvement with Advocates & Allies for Equity, IU Athletics, the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Intensive Freshman Seminars, Sustainability Scholars, the IU Food Institute, the 21st Century Scholars Program, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning and Campus Writing Program Advisory Boards, and College Mentors for Kids. From 2019 to 2023, Dr. Barwick co-chaired the Bloomington Faculty Council’s General Education Task Force.

Dr. Barwick’s teaching and student mentoring have been recognized with the IU Trustees Teaching Award (twice), Alpha Kappa Psi’s Herman B Wells Award, the Association for the Study of Food and Society’s Pedagogy Award, the IU Center of Excellence for Women &Technology’s Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award, FACET’s Bender Fellowship as well as other accolades.

Dr. Barwick earned his doctorate from Indiana University, Bloomington, and he has presented and published widely on pedagogy, writing, and food studies.