Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Each year the College selects three members of the tenure-line faculty to receive Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards. The most senior of these recipients is designated as the winner of the E. LeRoy Hall Award. In addition, two more Distinguished Teaching Awards, designated as Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Awards, are reserved for members of the teaching-track faculty. The Distinguished Teaching Awards carry cash stipends of $5,000.
Eligibility
- All tenure-line faculty members and full-time teaching track faculty who have taught in the College for a minimum of two years are eligible.
- Excellence as an undergraduate instructor is the primary criterion of the award. Contributions to curricular innovation and undergraduate life, perhaps as an adviser, program director, or director of undergraduate studies, are also valued by the Committee.
- Faculty members who have won a Weinberg College teaching award or a Weinberg College or NU teaching professorship in the past five years are ineligible for these awards.
Nomination materials
- Letter from the department chairperson or other nominator working in concert with the department chair. (Please limit the chair’s nomination letter to about 750 words (1.5 pages, single-spaced).)
- Current CV.
- Statement from the nominee setting forth their goals as a teacher and assessment of success in meeting those goals.
- Log of all courses taught in the past three years with CTECs and syllabi.
- Supporting letters from not fewer than three nor more than five current undergraduate students or recent college graduates.
The deadline for receipt of materials in the Dean's Office is February 15th (if February 15 falls on a weekend, the due date is the following Monday). Starting in 2022-23, Weinberg College will be using the Faculty Folio RPT interface to manage the workflow for the College Teaching Awards. Departments that plan to nominate a faculty member for a teaching award should contact Elizabeth Kim by January 20th. Her office will then create the nominee’s case in Faculty Folio RPT and release it to the department. The department will have until February 15th to upload all documents to Faculty Folio and forward the nomination packet to the Dean’s Office. Please feel free to address questions or comments about the awards and selection process to Elizabeth Kim.
2023 Weinberg College Teaching Award Recipients
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