Award for Excellence in Teaching

2023 Award Recipient

Dr. Ryan Miller
The Department of Educational Leadership

The College of Education Teaching Award Committee is soliciting nominations for the College of Education Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award has been established to encourage, identify, recognize, reward, and support outstanding teaching within the College of Education. Nominations are to be based upon sustained excellence of teaching in courses offered by the College. The award, which includes $1,500 in professional development funds and an engraved plaque, will be presented at the April meeting of the College of Education Faculty/ Staff.

Eligibility:

Nominations are solicited from faculty, staff, students, and alumni and are based upon the following criteria:
1. The nominee must hold a full-time faculty appointment in the College of Education at UNC Charlotte.
2. The nominee must have regularly taught in the College for at least four years.
3. The nominee must be teaching during the academic year in which he or she is nominated.
4. No faculty member will be eligible to receive the award more than once.

College of Education faculty, administrators, staff, students, and alumni may make nominations.

Required Materials:

Nomination materials include:
1. Abbreviate vita (five (5) page limit, with focus on teaching activities
2. Personal statement:teaching philosophy; examples of innovation; examples of student learning outcomes (limit 750 words)
3. Three (3) examples of course syllabi
4. Student evaluations (past three (3) years)
5. Peer observations (past three (3) years, if available)

The nomination deadline is March 1, 2024. Please use this form.

For questions regarding submission of nomination materials, please contact Dr. Lucy Arnold at lperkins@uncc.edu.

Previous Recipients:

2022 – Hilary Dack

2021 – Erik Byker

2020 – Sandra Dika

2019 – Spencer Salas

2018 – Mark D’Amico

2017 – Amy Good

2016 – Brian Kissel

2015 – Greg Wiggan

2014 – Teresa Petty

2013 – Lan Kolano

2012 – Chuang Wang

2011 – Scott Kissau

2010 – Sherell Fuller

2009 – Tina Heafner

2008 – Maria Yon

2007 – James Lyons

2006 – Lyndon Abrams

2005 – David Test

2004 – JaneDiane Smith

2003 – Susan Furr

2002 – David Pugalee

2001 – Claudia Flowers

2000 – Jeanneine Jones

1999 – Nancy Cooke

1998 – Phyllis Post

1997 – Jack Piel

1996 – Mary Thomas Burke

1995 – Karen Wood