Chancellor's Award For Excellence in Teaching

Purpose:
This Award recognizes and honors faculty for outstanding achievement in teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate student levels.

Award:
An award plaque and honorarium of $5,000 is presented at the Chancellor's State of the University Address in the Fall semester.

Eligibility:
Nominees must be tenured, full-time, faculty with seven or more years of teaching service at UM - St. Louis.

Criteria:
Nominees must show evidence consistent with the priorities and goals outlined in the UM-St. Louis Action Plan, demonstrating:

Teaching effectiveness, including evidence of student learning
Academic standards that promote excellence in undergraduate and/or graduate teaching
Innovative approaches that foster student achievement and retention
Substantial contributions to student mentoring, advising, and/or civic engagement

Submission of Materials and Format:
All nominations must include the following materials.

Cover page with name, position, academic address of nominee and nominator
Table of contents
Detailed nomination letter of support
Curriculum vitae with website address
Nominee’s philosophy of teaching statement, explicitly outlining teaching goals, teaching strategies and methods of bringing their current research, scholarship, or creative activity into the teaching process. Statement should not exceed five double-spaced pages. The nominee may want to include the following in the personal philosophy statement:
- innovative techniques developed to assess student learning and provide feedback.
- description of a created course or a revised curriculum.
- concrete examples of effective mentoring techniques.
- innovative teaching techniques shared with other teachers.
- steps taken to extend the learning process beyond the classroom.
- creative ways teaching draws upon one’s research or public service.
- contributions to peer discussion of teaching and learning and/or class design through publications, presentations, Web-based resources, etc.
- evidence of impact at the state or regional level.
Evidence supporting nomination criteria as above
List of courses taught by the nominee
Syllabi from the nominee’s courses.
Summaries of course evaluations (individual course evaluation documents are not desirable)
A letter from the chair, dean or other senior individual in the candidate's unit describing the contributions to teaching
Minimum of six (6) and not more than eighteen (18) letters of support from students, alumni, colleagues, administrators and community leaders. Include a statement explaining how the individuals were selected to write the letters.

Winning nominations will become public information and shared with the campus community. Candidates and nominators demonstrate their agreement to allow the packets to become public through the submission process. (The letters of support, individual course evaluations and the candidate's vita are exempt from this public disclosure.)

Nomination Procedure:
The Committee requires submission through electronic format. These nominations should be in MS Word or pdf format, and should be emailed to the Senate office (senate@umsl.edu) no later than 5 pm on the deadline. In addition, one paper version of the nomination must be sent to the chair of the committee.

Deadline for Submission:
April 25, 2008 at 5 p.m. is the deadline for submission of nomination and completed materials packet.

Previous Award Winners:
2007 - 2008 Stephen R. Moehrle, Associate Professor, Accounting

2006 - 2007 Jean-Germain Gros, Associate Professor, Political Science

2005 - 2006 Anne E. Winkler, Professor, Economics and Public Policy Administration

2004 - 2005 Edward Lawrence, Professor, Finance

2003 - 2004 Sally Barr Ebest, Associate Professor, English

2002 - 2003 David Robertson, Professor, Political Science

2001 - 2002 Margaret Sherraden, Associate Professor, Social Work

2000 - 2001 Richard Pacelle, Associate Professor, Political Science

1999 - 2000 Susan Feigenbaum, Professor, Economics

1998 - 1999 Arthur Shaffer, Professor, History

1997 - 1998 Rudolph Winter, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

1996 - 1997 Steven Hause, Professor, History

1995 - 1996 Carol Kohfeld, Professor, Political Science

1994 - 1996 Richard Rosenfeld, Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice

1993 - 1994 Lloyd Richardson, Professor, Education Leadership and Policy Studies

1992 - 1993 Patricia Jakubowski, Professor, Counseling and Family Therapy

1991 - 1992 J. Martin Rochester, Professor, Political Science

1990 - 1991 Robert Sorenson, Professor, Economics

1989 - 1990 Yael Even, Associate Professor, Art and Art History

1988 - 1989 Laurence Madeo, Lecturer, Management Science and Information Systems