St. Olaf professor wins $200,000 award

Star Tribune: St. Olaf choir leader wins $200,000 teaching prize. "St. Olaf College choir conductor and music professor Anton Armstrong is the winner of the most lucrative award in the nation for great college teaching."

St. Olaf News Service: Anton Armstrong '78 receives $200,000 'great teaching' award

Baylor University has named Anton Armstrong, conductor of the famed St. Olaf Choir, the recipient of the 2006 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching -- the single largest award given in the United States to an individual for great teaching. Armstrong, the Harry R. and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College and a 1978 alumnus, will receive $200,000; an additional $25,000 will be awarded to the St. Olaf Music Department.