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SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching - Nominate a Colleague!

The deadline for submitting a nomination is November 18, 2024.

Excellence in Teaching (EIT)

The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes consistently superior teaching at the graduate, undergraduate, or professional level in keeping with the State University’s commitment to providing its students with instruction of the highest quality.

Nominations should be sent to Eric Wheeler (ewheeler@monroecc.edu) by Monday, November 18, 2024.

 Nomination packets must include:

  •  A nomination letter addressed to the Chancellor's Award Selection Committee;
  •  letters of support and a current resume/CV.

The nomination letter and letters of support may not be more than five pages long. Please compile these in a single PDF document - if possible – in the order above. Any additional information submitted should be in a separate file.

Selection Criteria – EIT

The primary criterion is skill in teaching. Additionally, consideration is given to sound scholarship (usually demonstrated through publications or artistic productions), outstanding service to students, as well as service to the State University and to the campus. The following criteria are to be used in selecting nominees for this award:

  • Teaching Techniques and Representative Materials – There must be positive evidence that the candidate performs superbly in teaching. The nominee must maintain a flexible instructional policy that adapts readily to student needs, interests and problems. Mastery of teaching techniques, including different instructional practices that adapt to different courses, must be demonstrated and substantiated. Consideration is to be given to the number of substantially different courses taught and the number of students per course.
  • Student evaluations (in the form of student questionnaires administered and compiled by persons other than the nominee) should be presented for several different courses over a period of several recent years to provide a clear idea of the nominee's impact on students.
  • Scholarship and Professional Growth – Candidates must be teacher/scholars who keep abreast of their own field and who use the relevant contemporary data from that field and related disciplines in their teaching. Evidence in this area includes, but is not limited to, publications, grants, presentations at conferences, professional development, creative activities, etc.
  • Student Services – In relating to students, candidates must be generous with personal time, easily accessible, and must demonstrate a continual concern for the intellectual growth of individual students. The focus here is the accessibility of the nominee to students outside of class (e.g., mentoring student research, office hours, conferences, special meetings, and the nominee's responsibility in terms of student advisement). Academic Standards and Requirements, and Evaluation of Student Performance – Candidates must set high standards for students and help them attain academic excellence. Quantity and quality of work that is more than average for the subject must be required of the students. Candidates must work actively with individual students to help them improve their scholarly or creative performance. This individual interaction is an important source of information that indicates the nature and level of instruction offered by the nominee. Consideration is to be given to the quality, quantity, and difficulty of the tasks or work assigned to students. Candidates' evaluations of students' work must be strongly supported by evidence. Candidates must be willing to give greater weight to each student's final level of competence than to the performance at the beginning of the course. Since expert teachers enable students to achieve high levels of scholarship, it is possible that the candidates' marking records may be somewhat above average. There must also be evidence that candidates do not hesitate to give low evaluations to students who do poorly. For this category, consideration should be given to grading patterns, particularly grade distributions for all courses in at least two recent years. Evidence in support of student performance may also be assessed by the accomplishments of students, including placement and achievement levels.

Eligibility Criteria - EIT

  • Academic Background – Candidates must be tenured, tenure-track, or full-time non-tenured track faculty for the academic year in which the nominee is nominated, and regularly carry a full-time teaching load as defined by the campus for full-time teaching. (Note: Please see full discussion of this issue above under “Academic Background” section for the Excellence in Faculty Service award.)
  • Length of Service – Nominees must have completed three academic years of full-time appointment within the previous five years (years do not need to be consecutive) at the nominating campus prior to the year of nomination.
  • Academic Rank – Candidates may hold any full-time academic rank as defined in the SUNY Board of Trustees policies: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, assistant instructor, clinical professor, and full-time non-tenure track faculty including the title Lecturer are eligible for nomination. Please note the State University of New York Policies of the Board of Trustees – January 2022 – Article II – §1 (Terms).

Questions: Email Eric Wheeler (ewheeler@monroecc.edu) or call 585-292-2296.

Calvin Gantt
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
09/24/2024