Provost's Teaching Award - Senior Career Faculty

The Provost's Teaching Award recognizes meritorious excellence in teaching. Two awards are given each year to full-time, regular faculty members; one award will be given to an early career faculty member and one to a seasoned/senior career faculty member. The awards are given for significant personal contributions to the quality, scope, and outcomes of teaching, learner assessment, and learner mentoring in the health professions, public health, or biomedical sciences. 

Policy

PROVOST'S TEACHING AWARDS

 

The Provost's Teaching Awards recognize meritorious excellence in teaching.  The awards are given for significant personal contributions to the quality, scope, and outcomes of teaching learner assessment and learner mentoring in the health professions, public health, or biomedical sciences. 

Two awards are given each year to full-time, Regular faculty members. 

  • One award will be given to an early career faculty member who is within the first nine (9) years of the academic appointment and, at the time of nomination, holds the academic rank of instructor in an HSC undergraduate program, or assistant professor, or associate professor.  If the nominee is an associate professor, he/she must have achieved that rank no more than 3 years prior to the date of the nomination.
     
  • One award will be given to a senior career faculty member who holds the rank of associate professor or professor, has served as a faculty member in an HSC academic program for nine (9) or more years, and has established a record of teaching contributions commensurate with the length of the academic appointment and bearing evidence of excellence including long-term outcomes of mentoring learners. 

The awards are $2,000 each.
 

NOMINATIONS

Nominations will be solicited during the fall semester and can be made by any full-time faculty member.  They should be made by a letter to the Senior Vice President and Provost describing the nominee’s teaching achievements, and enclosing three to five reference letters, including at least one from a faculty colleague and one from a former student, as well as a detailed curriculum vitae. 

Nominations will be evaluated by the Educators Excellence Advisory Panel, which includes at least two former recipients of University teaching awards.  The Panel may also consist of individuals who have received research or professional service awards and/or participated in Educators for Excellence.  The two nominations judged best for each award will be forwarded to the Senior Vice President and Provost, along with an evaluation that gives the reasons for the recommendations.  Nominations are due in December of each year.
 

SELECTION

The selections are made by an ad hoc committee consisting of the chair of the Educators for Excellence Advisory Panel and the Senior Vice President and Provost.
 

RECIPIENTS

The recipients of the Provost's Teaching Award will be announced by the Senior Vice President and Provost at the Spring General Faculty Meeting.

 

(Senior Vice President and Provost, 9-24-15, 9-14-17)

Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR NOMINATION MATERIALS  • PROVOST'S TEACHING AWARDS

Nominations will be solicited during the fall semester and can be made by any full-time faculty member. They should be made by a letter to the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost describing the nominee's teaching achievements, enclosing three to five reference letters, including at least one from a faculty colleague and one from a former student, as well as a detailed curriculum vitae.  

Please adhere to the following guidelines below (in order) when submitting nominations for the Provost’s Teaching Award

ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF NOMINATIONS

An electronic dossier (complete) for each nomination is to be submitted to Helen Timmons, Administrative Manager, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, via helen-timmons@ou.edu; questions can also be directed to her via email or phone at 271-2332 ext. 48658

The following sequence should be followed:

  1. Nomination letter to the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost describing the nominee’s teaching achievements
  2. Brief Professional Biography
  3. Detailed Curriculum Vitae
  4. Letter of support from the nominee's supervisor (if not the niminator)
  5. Letter of support from the nominee's dean (if not the nominator)
  6. At least three (3) letters of support which must include a least one letter from a former student/learner and at least one letter from a faculty colleague.
  7. Narrative responses to award criteria.
  8. IMPORTANT:  DO NOT INCLUDE COPIES OF REPRINTS OR ANY APPENDIX MATERIALS IN THE NOMINATION PACKET.

The complete nomination narrative, exclusive of letters and curriculum vitae must not exceed a total of 50 pages. The narrative section must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins

 

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