Call for Nominations:
President’s Teaching Excellence Awards 2024
Submit Your Nominations
Deadline is 5 p.m., Nov. 10
The Committee on Effective Teaching (CET), in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), requests nominees for the President’s Teaching Excellence Awards for 2024. In considering outstanding teachers in your units, please keep in mind the criteria for each award.
- To make your nominations, you will need to know the first and last names of your nominees, the appropriate award categories, and how many you are nominating in each category. Awards and criteria for eligibility are described below.
- Nominees do not benefit from being nominated by more than one person.
- Please note this is not an anonymous survey.
- Nominations are accepted from administration, teaching staff, faculty and graduate students.
- Self-nominations are accepted.
- Please do not send the nomination form to undergraduates.
Each nominee will be contacted and asked to supply documentation in support of their candidacy. A committee appointed in conjunction with the CET will recommend prospective winners to President Richard C. Benson in March.
Descriptions and Eligibility Requirements
President’s Teaching Excellence Awards in/for:
- Undergraduate Instruction for Tenure-System Faculty: This award recognizes sustained excellence in undergraduate instruction, including innovation in approaches to teaching and the overall impact on student learning. To be eligible, faculty members must have taught on the UTD campus for a minimum of five years and have not won this award in the previous 10 years. Winners of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA) in the previous 10 years are not eligible.
- Undergraduate Instruction for Non-Tenure-System Faculty: This award recognizes sustained excellence in undergraduate instruction, including innovation in approaches to teaching and the overall impact on student learning. To be eligible, faculty members must have taught on the UTD campus for a minimum of three years and have not won this award in the previous 10 years. Winners of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA) in the previous 10 years are not eligible.
- Graduate/Professional Instruction: This award recognizes sustained excellence in graduate or professional program instruction, including innovation in approaches to teaching and the overall impact on student learning. To be eligible, faculty members must have taught on the UTD campus for a minimum of five years (including at least one graduate or professional course for four semesters) and have not won this award in the previous 10 years.
- Online/Blended Instruction: This award recognizes excellence in the design and delivery of courses in online or blended formats, including innovation in course development, effective use of technology and media, and overall positive impact on student learning. To be eligible, faculty members must have taught at least three courses in an online (course delivered 85-100% online) or blended (course delivered 50-84% online) format in the last three years and have not won this award in the previous 10 years.
- Teaching Assistants: This award recognizes exceptional instructional performance by a graduate teaching assistant. To be eligible, graduate students must have served as a teaching assistant for a minimum of two semesters on the UTD campus. Each nominee will need at least one letter of support from a faculty member, submitted by the faculty member using a link in the Faculty Resources organization in eLearning.
Thank you for your time and consideration in nominating outstanding instructors.
Please contact me, Dr. Amandeep Sra, CET chair, or Dr. Karen Huxtable-Jester, CTL director, if you have questions or concerns.
Regards,
Dr. Amandeep Sra, Chair
2023-2024 Committee on Effective Teaching
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