The Neighborhood Schools Program will honor Assistant Instructional Professor of German Nicole G. Burgoyne with the 2021 Don York Faculty Initiative Award. According to NSP, "The Don York Faculty Initiative Award honors a member of the University of Chicago faculty who has made a positive impact in the field of education and, more often, in the lives of our local schools." Professor Burgoyne is being recognized for her work with the SPARK for German program, through which she has connected UChicago students of German with four public schools on the South Side of Chicago.