The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences welcomes nominations for the following teaching awards. Please note that nominations for all online nominations are due no later than February 1, 2007. The descriptions below give details about each kind of teaching award. Please also consult the list of previous winners as teachers who have won within the past five years are ineligible.
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Weinberg College Outstanding TA Awards
Research Mentor Award
Community Builder Award
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Each year the College selects three colleagues to receive Distinguished Teaching Awards, one of which is designated the E. LeRoy Hall Award. A fourth award, the Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award, is reserved for members of the lecturer faculty. A student-faculty Committee on Teaching Awards evaluates nominations from departments and the Student Advisory Board and recommends candidates to the Dean. The award carries a stipend of $2200.
Eligible are all tenured and tenure-track faculty members and all full-time lecturers who have taught in the College for a minimum of two years. Excellence as an undergraduate instructor is the primary criterion of the award. Contributions to curricular innovation and undergraduate life, perhaps as an advisor, 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 this award.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is February 1, 2007. For questions about student nominations please contact Elise Boroian <e-boroian@northwestern.edu> or Maureen Gordon <m-gordon-1@northwestern.edu>.
Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards
Each year the College selects three teaching assistants to receive Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards, one per Division. A student-faculty Committee on Teaching Awards evaluates nominations from departments and the Student Advisory Board and recommends candidates to the Dean. The award carries a stipend of $750.
Any graduate student who has carried out the duties of teaching assistant or lecturer in 2004-05 or 2005-06 is eligible. Previous winners are ineligible.
Excellence in work with undergraduates is the primary criterion of the award. The deadline for submitting a nomination is February 1, 2007. For questions about student nominations please contact Elise Boroian <e-boroian@northwestern.edu> or Maureen Gordon <m-gordon-1@northwestern.edu>.
Research Mentor Award
The WCAS Student Advisory Board solicits nominations for Outstanding Research Mentor. Students should nominate faculty members who have excelled in supervising laboratory work, independent study courses, honors work, summer research and the like.
Nominations should make specific reference to the ways in which the professor made the research experience a success.
The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2007. For questions about student nominations please contact Elise Boroian <e-boroian@northwestern.edu> or Maureen Gordon <m-gordon-1@northwestern.edu>.
Community Building Award
The WCAS Student Advisory Board solicits nominations for Distinguished Leaders in Undergraduate Community. The award recognizes faculty who foster a sense of community both inside and outside the classroom and who make students feel valued as members of the Northwestern intellectual community. Nominations should include letters from students describing the contributions to community made by the nominated faculty member and a list of any activities that the nominee may have undertaken for Northwestern undergraduates (advising, work with student groups, etc.).
The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2007. For questions about student nominations please contact Elise Boroian <e-boroian@northwestern.edu> or Maureen Gordon <m-gordon-1@northwestern.edu>.
