Teaching Awards
Information
for Faculty Members | Information
for Students
Each year Northwestern University and Weinberg College honor some fifteen
faculty members and graduate students for excellence
in teaching.
University-Wide
Awards
Each year,
three members of the university's tenure-line faculty are named winners of
the Charles Deering McCormick Professorships of Teaching Excellence. In addition, beginning in 2008, the Office of the Provost will select two Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturers/Clinical Professors.
Two members
of the university's tenure-line faculty are recognized each year as winners of
the Northwestern Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award; in addition to inspiring teaching, the
award also honors faculty members for their contributions
to co-curricular activities.
Weinberg College
Awards
Each year,
five members of the college faculty, including two lecturers,
are named as recipients of the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching
Award. The most senior of the tenure-line faculty members
so honored is designated as the winner of the E. LeRoy
Hall Award; the award reserved for the two members of the lecturer faculty is called
the Arts & Sciences Alumni Award.
The Weinberg College Outstanding
Graduate Student Teacher Award is given annually to
three students, one each from the humanities, the social
sciences, and the natural sciences and mathematics.
The Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research is given to a faculty member who has excelled in supervising laboratory work, independent study courses, honors work, summer research and the like.
The Weinberg College Community
Building Award is given to the member of a faculty member
who has made substantial contributions to the life of
the college as an intellectual community.
In addition
to the awards listed above, the college also has three
endowed chairs that are reserved for distinguished undergraduate
teachers, the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair,
the Alfred W. Chase Chair in Business Institutions,
and the Martin J. and Patricia Koldyke Professorship.
Faculty
Award Winners
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