Teacher/Scholar of the Year
Originating in 1960, this is the University of Florida's most prestigious and oldest faculty award. It offers an honorarium of $5,000 in addition to other appropriate recognition. Current faculty members of the University are eligible for consideration for this significant award.
In selecting the awardee, the Award Committee designates a faculty member who demonstrates distinguished achievement in both teaching and scholarly activity (manifested by scholarly research, creative writing, original works of art, etc.) and visibility within and beyond the university.
Process for 2008-09 Teacher/Scholar of the Year:
Each college is invited to nominate ONE faculty member who best exemplifies the criteria for this award.
Nominations should include the following documents:
- A letter of nomination from the college dean.
- A letter of support from the nominee's department chair.
- *A statement of teaching philosophy including evidence of mentoring graduate or professional students, participation in undergraduate research and outreach within and beyond the university.
- *A summary of courses taught in the past five years, including typical enrollments and a summary table of student course evaluations.
- *A summary of the nominee's scholarly work, including the nature of the research or creative work, importance of the work to the scholar's field, funding sources, awards received, graduate students/fellows trained.
- Curriculum vitae.
- Additional supporting material not to exceed five pages (optional).
*Materials to be submitted using the application form only.
Nominations that do not follow the guidelines above will be disqualified.
The nomination dossiers will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the Faculty Academic Advisory Committee and past winners of this award. The Committee may request additional documentation, as it deems necessary to evaluate more fully the nominations.
The Teacher/Scholar of the Year Application is available in Adobe PDF format. Please print the completed form and submit it with the additional materials to the address below.
Nomination dossiers (an original plus 7 copies) for the 2008-2009 award should be delivered to Faculty Development, 235 Tigert Hall, no later than February 2, 2009. The awardee will be notified by mid-April.
Previous recipients of the Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award can be found here.
