The award was established in 2016 by alumni Robert ’84 and Donna Manning ’85, ’91 to recognize leaders in teaching and service. This year, Nehring was awarded the Manning Prize for Teaching Excellence alongside four other UMass professors, one at each of the system’s five campuses.
And he didn’t need to look any further than his mirror. He has asked it while doing research in high-needs school districts in the United States and as a Fulbright Fellow in Northern Ireland. He kept asking it as he wrote the first of seven books and joined UML’s College of Education. He asked it in different ways as he helped start an alternative high school, became principal of a public charter school and earned his doctorate in education. Jim Nehring has been asking for three decades, since he started out as a middle school teacher in Pine Bush, N.Y.
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