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MCC Daily Tribune

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching - Deadline to Nominate is Monday, October 21, 2024

The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct 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, October 21, 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 listed above. Any additional information submitted should be in a separate file.

Selection Criteria:

  • The primary criterion is skill in teaching.
  • Teaching Techniques and Representative Materials – There must be positive evidence that the candidate performs superbly in educational environments. The nominee must maintain instructional policies that adapt readily to student needs, interests and problems. Mastery of teaching techniques must be demonstrated and substantiated.

Candidate’s evaluations of students’ work must be strongly supported by evidence. When available, student evaluations (in the form of student questionnaires administered and compiled by persons other than the nominee) may provide a clear idea of the nominee’s effectiveness in teaching. Additional consideration, as appropriate, may be given to:

  • Outstanding support for the intellectual growth of individual students;
  • Demonstrated use of relevant contemporary data from their discipline(s) in their teaching. Evidence may be scholarly and/or widely recognized experience in the field;
  • Number of students per course; and
  • Different teaching techniques employed.

Eligibility Criteria Specific to the EIAT:

  • Nominees must be Adjunct faculty as generally defined by the specific SUNY institution. Individuals serving in a full-time professional or academic position at a SUNY institution are not eligible for this award;
  • Nominees must have taught, over the preceding five years, a total of courses equivalent to one-half of a three-year full-time teaching load in the appropriate department;
  • Nominees may also serve in adjunct roles at other educational institutions; and
  • Nominees must be employed by the nominating campus at the time of the nomination. Retirees serving as Adjunct faculty are not eligible for nomination.

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

Calvin Gantt
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
10/14/2024