The award for teaching excellence is available to recognize outstanding faculty performance at UM-Flint. Carrying a stipend of $1,000, this award may be made to full-time lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors, or full professors. This honor need not be awarded every year.

To provide faculty expertise to the Thompson Center for Learning and Teaching (TCLT), the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award will also become a member of the TCLT advisory committee for three years.

Eligibility

Full-time faculty members who have been with the University for a minimum of three years are eligible to be nominated.

An individual would normally be excluded from consideration for this award for any of the following reasons:

• He/she holds a continuing administrative or non-teaching appointment of one third or more.
• He/she holds an administrative appointment above the level of department chair.
• He/she is the David M. French Professor.
• He/she is a current member of the SASE.
• He/she has received this award within the past five years.

Nominations

Nominations may be made by faculty, staff, or students and should be submitted to the Chair of the SASE Committee, c/o Provost's Office, 229 University Pavilion. The letter of nomination is due on January 20, 2006. Other supporting documents must be submitted on February 24, 2006.

Required Supporting Documentation (in addition to letter from nominator)

• Nominee's vita.
• Letter of support from appropriate department chair (dean in the case of SOM, director in the case of SHPS).
• Descriptions of classes taught, instructional techniques (with emphasis on new approaches), new course development, development of teaching material, and advising responsibilities. To the extent possible, activities involving students should be addressed.
• Description of innovations in teaching methods and course structure.
• Descriptions of nominee's use of time with students outside of class, including comments on advising and counseling activities.
• Copies of syllabi representative of courses taught.
• Copies of student evaluations along with related comments.
• Copies of representative classroom handouts, course development materials.
• Articles and papers related to pedagogy, evidence of related conference and workshop participation, and any additional evidence of teaching quality.
• Up to five letters of support from peers addressing teaching effectiveness, creativity, counseling or utilization of non-classroom time to benefit students.
• Up to five letters of support from students addressing teaching effectiveness, creativity, counseling or utilization of non-classroom time to benefit students.