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Eligibility
Any full-time member of the UNF regular teaching faculty, holding
the rank of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,
or Professor, who has taught during Fall 1997
1998 or is teaching during Spring 1998
1999 at least two (2) undergraduate courses is eligible
to be nominated for these awards. Courses taught during the Summer
or while the faculty member was in a visiting or adjunct appointment
are not eligible for consideration under these guidelines. Visiting
and adjunct faculty are not considered regular teaching faculty,
and as such, are not eligible. No winner of an Outstanding Undergraduate
Teaching Award shall be eligible to win another Outstanding Undergraduate
Teaching Award for two until the third
years following receipt of the last award.
University Selection Committee
The University Selection Committee will be composed of the President
of the Faculty Association, the Chairperson of the Faculty Affairs
Committee, the President of the Student Government Association,
and one representative from each College to be elected by the
faculty of the College from the ranks of regular teaching faculty
who have received awards in previous years. No person who is a
nominee for the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award or who
is related to any nominee, may serve on this committee; in such
cases, the constituency such a person represents shall elect a
substitute representative. The President of the Faculty Association
shall convene the University Selection Committee prior to the
end of January 1998 1999 for the purposes
of electing a chairperson and establishing a schedule for the
entire process.
Nomination
Any person within the University community (students, alumni,
faculty, staff or administrators) may nominate a faculty member
for these awards. Nominations must be in writing and signed by
the nominator, or sent via Email to CRASCHE FACASSN1@UNF.EDU,
or posted through the WEB site at www.unf.edu/groups/unffa/.
Written nominations are to be delivered, preferably by hand, to
the Faculty Association Office. The deadline for receipt of all
nominations is the deadline set forth on the Teaching Awards
Schedule January XX. It is
the responsibility of the nominator to ensure that his/her nomination
is delivered prior to the deadline. The nomination should consist
of a simple factual statement ("I wish to nominate ______________
for the 1998 1999 Outstanding Undergraduate
Teaching Award.") and should not consist of an argument on behalf
of, or a rationale for, the candidacy of the nominee.
The President of the Faculty Association shall, in cooperation
with the Deans of the respective Colleges, confirm the eligibility
of each nominee. The President of the Faculty Association shall
also keep a list of all nominees and notify send
a letter of confirmation of the nomination to each nominee
and his/her chair of the nomination,
after the close of nominations.
The President of the Faculty Association will collect all copies
of the completed Nominee Materials and forward the materials to
each of the appropriate Colleges for screening. The President
of the Faculty Association will also keep a list of all nominees
whose materials have been forwarded to the Colleges.
Nominee Materials
The nominees will be given two weeks from the date of notification
to return nine (9) copies of their completed Nominee Materials
to the President of the Faculty Association. The Nominee Materials
must consist only of the following:
A vita (maximum of five (5) pages) focusing
on including the nominee's most recent
teaching accomplishments and any scholarship and/or service
directly related to teaching.
A list of courses taught during the past two (2) years, not
including courses taught during the Summer. The list is to
contain course number, course name, number of credit hours,
and enrollment.
A discussion (maximum of three (3) pages) of the nominee's
teaching philosophy and his/her most significant teaching
accomplishments. Significant teaching accomplishments may
be documented by citing such things as: the development of
new courses and degree programs; other efforts to improve
and enhance the curriculum; summary results of evaluations
of the nominee's teaching by students and academic colleagues
through methods such as survey instruments, questionnaires,
and in-class visitations and observations; awards or other
formal recognition received for outstanding teaching; grants
or financial aid obtained for innovation and experimentation
in teaching; and so forth. The nominee may also include a
discussion of scholarly accomplishments and/or service activities
that directly relate to teaching.
A signed statement by the faculty member attesting to
the accuracy of the information included in the packet and
a stipulation on the part of the Chair that the material is
consistent with the chair's knowledge of the faculty member's
performance (see attached form, "Statements of Accuracy").
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Nominees are to submit only the required materials listed
above and are not to submit SUSSAI or SIR raw data, course syllabi
or handouts, teaching evaluations, or other appendices. Standard
margins and a font size of no smaller than 11 points are to be used.
There shall be no more than a total of 10 pages in the packet.
Nominees who submit materials that are not kept strictly within
these guidelines or fail to submit all materials by the February
XX deadlines will not be considered further.
Screening and Naming of Finalists by the
Colleges
Each of the Colleges shall elect a College Screening Committee
to screen nominees and name finalists for the Outstanding Undergraduate
Teaching Awards. Only regular teaching faculty holding the rank
of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor,
who are not nominees for these awards will be eligible to serve
on this Committee. If colleges do not conform to this guideline,
their nominees will not be considered further. The College Committee
shall screen the nominations received and name up to seven (7)
finalists for the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards. The
names of the College Finalists, along with the Nominee Materials
of all nominees, shall be returned to the President of the Faculty
Association, who will deliver the materials of the College Finalists
to the Chairperson of the University Selection Committee.
Selection of the University Selection Committee
The University Selection Committee will make the final choices
from among the finalists forwarded from each of the Colleges.
The Committee will make its final decisions based only upon the
Nominee Materials which accompany the forwarded nominations. The
Committee may request clarification regarding a finalist, either
verbal or written, if desired. Such information may be provided
by the appropriate College Committee representative. There will
be no verbal presentations by the finalists nor campaigns on behalf
of the finalists. The Committee shall make its decisions solely
on the basis of the nominee's merits, and without consideration
for other such factors as departmental or college affiliation
of present nominees or past award winners. No proxy voting will
be allowed.
Once the University Selection Committee has selected the final
recipients, it is also responsible for identifying one recipient
to represent the University in the Carnegie Foundation Professor
of the Year Award Competition.
It will be the responsibility of the University Selection Committee
to notify the nominees of their selection status when the final
decisions have been made. The Chairperson of the University Selection
Committee will send a letter to the Office of Academic Affairs
which will notify them of the seven winners of the Outstanding
Undergraduate Teaching Awards and of the winner selected to compete
for the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year Award. Winners
of the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards shall be notified
and receive their awards as soon as possible. Formal recognition
of winners shall occur at the Fall Convocation..
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