Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations to the 2022-2023 Teaching Excellence Award Winners!

Award Process

Please consider applying or nominating a fellow faculty member to apply for this recognition of the outstanding efforts faculty make. The spring 2024 TEA Award application is open and the deadline is February 28th.

 

Overview

There are four awards, each for $1,500:

1. Tenured Faculty
2. Tenure Track Faculty
3. Category II
4. Affiliate (part-time)

The Faculty Senate Teaching Excellence Awards are intended to honor individuals who demonstrate excellence in teaching by:

• Showing  enthusiasm for their subject matter and imparting that enthusiasm to students
• Demonstrating inclusive teaching practices
• Cultivating accessibility and open rapport with students

Applicants for the tenured and tenure track award must be full-time faculty and have taught a full load or worked an equivalent load during both semesters of 2023-2024. Applicants for the full-time temporary and part-time faculty award must have taught classes during both semesters of 2023-2024. The Teaching Excellence Award Committee is committed to evaluating face-to-face, on-line and hybrid teaching and encourages all faculty to consider applying for this prestigious award.

 

Application Process

All applications must be received by the  February 26th deadline for full consideration.

A complete TEA Award application will include the following:

1. A Teaching Philosophy (Between 200-500 words)
2. A Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement (Maximum 250 words)
3. Official student comments from any two classes between fall 2022 and fall 2023. See below for assistance in access your student comments.

Accessing Official Student Comments from Watermark/Digital Measures

1. 1. Log into Watermark/Digital Measures
   2. At the top of the page click on Reports
   3. Run a report called “SRI Report” with the date of Fall 2022-Fall 2023.
   4. When reviewing your report, control click where it says “Official student comments” highlighted in light blue below each course. Look for a course that best represents your teaching. Save the comments from that course as a PDF file. Please do that for two different courses. These PDF files will be  uploaded to the application Qualtrics survey Here.

Please direct questions to Lisa Kindleberger Hagan [email protected] 

 

 

Past Recipients