Arathi Mehrotra

Arathi Mehrotra and Roberto Rigobon (Applied Economics) were named co-winners of the Sloan School Teacher of the Year at the MIT Sloan Excellence in Teaching Awards. Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations.
 

Arathi Mehrotra has won an MIT Sloan School Outstanding Teacher Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. Michelle Hanlon in Accounting also won an Outstanding Teacher Award.  Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations. Deputy Dean Michael Cusumano thanked the winners of this year's teaching awards for "exemplifying the dedication to pedagogical excellence that is so central to our mission at MIT Sloan."

Arathi Mehrotra, Miro Kazakoff, Andrew W. Lo, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Nikolaos Trichakis, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

Mehrotra was cited for her classes Communication for Leaders taught in the fall of 2020, and Communicating with Data, taught in the spring of 2021. One student nominator commented, "Arathi made an end of semester video with our best moments from each presentation, which was such a nice use of the video content and made the most of our virtual situation!"

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. 
This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, 
and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.