Mason has recognized Dr. Sklarew's pedagogical leadership, curricular innovation and service with its prestigious Teaching Excellence Award, Mentoring Excellence Award, Career Connection Faculty of the Year Award and Jack Wood Award for Town Gown Relations. Students and university leaders have lauded his constructivist re-design of a graduate ecology course for classroom, distance education and hybrid formats as a model for other subjects. Dr. Sklarew created the Accelerated Master’s program for Environmental Science and Policy and an undergraduate major concentration for Business and Sustainability. He designed and delivers the undergraduate capstone “Sustainability in Action” (#evpp480) course around an action research core, enhanced by over 10,000 hours of service learning since 2011. His #ManagingOurPlanet graduate seminar series has incorporated monthly public panel discussions co-organized with the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC.

While serving as an academic advisor for over 120 Environmental Science majors, Dr. Sklarew has chaired 24 graduate committees (20 graduated), served on 23 (18 graduated), and supervised 33 graduate and undergraduate studies and 1 graduate internship. Most advisees pursued degrees in Environmental Science and Policy, Sustainability Studies or Social Entrepreneurship.