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Awards Criteria

Each year the UTC honors outstanding faculty members for excellence in the three performance areas of teaching, research/creative achievement, and service. The application procedures and criteria for these awards are described below.

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General Application Procedures

Faculty members receiving an award in at the college level for the current year will be automatically considered for a university-level award in the same category.

A nominee application packet should demonstrate the quality, depth and scope to reflect achievement in the area for which the candidate is nominated. For the purposes of these awards, the complete portfolio is limited to 30 single-spaced pages printed on one side of each page.

Teaching

UTC Tenured and Tenure-track Teaching Award

Eligibility:

  • Full time tenured or tenure-track faculty members are eligible.
  • Faculty members must have completed at least three years of service at UTC.
  • Faculty members are eligible to receive this award once every three years.

Required application materials from only last three years:

  • Applicant's student evaluations of teaching
  • Course materials (minimum of two different courses)

Supplemental materials (helpful, but not all required):

  • Direction of honors theses, and/or graduate theses and dissertations
  • Professional development activities related to teaching and learning
  • Grants to redesign or innovate courses
  • Invited lectures on pedagogy
  • Evidence of creative/innovative approaches in the classroom (face to face or virtual)
  • Active participation in discipline, program/degree and/or department curriculum process
  • Other awards, honors and recognitions received for teaching

UTC Non-Tenure-Track Teaching Award

Eligibility:

  • Non-tenure-track faculty are eligible, including Teaching (Lecturer) Faculty, Clinical Faculty, Research Faculty, Faculty of Practice, and Adjunct Faculty.
  • An Adjunct Faculty member is eligible if they have taught in at least one semester of each of the last three academic years.
  • Faculty members are eligible to receive this award once every three years.

Required application materials from only last three years:

  • Applicant's student evaluations of teaching
  • Course materials

Supplemental materials (helpful, but not all required):

  • Professional development activities related to teaching and learning
  • Grants to redesign or innovate courses
  • Evidence of creative/innovative approaches in the classroom (face to face or virtual)
  • Other awards, honors and recognitions received for teaching

UTC Outstanding Teaching in General Education

Eligibility:

  • Any part-time or full-time faculty member is eligible.
  • The faculty member must have taught at least one General Education course at UTC in the past two years.
  • The faculty member must have taught at UTC for a minimum of three academic years.

Required application materials from only last three years:

  • A 1-2 page letter that summarizes the nominee’s major accomplishments in General Education teaching, points to ways in which the nominee has helped students achieve the learning outcomes of one or more General Education categories or subcategories, and explains clearly how the nominee’s teaching distinguishes itself specifically in the context of General Education.

Supplemental materials (helpful, but not all required):

  • Student course evaluations, syllabi, assignment/project information prepared for/with students, and/or peer teaching evaluations

Note: A committee with representation from all colleges will review the nominees for the award for Outstanding Teaching in General Education.

Research

UTC Lifetime Research and Creative Achievement Award

Eligibility:

  • Full time tenured faculty member
  • Minimum of 15 years of completed service at UTC
  • A faculty member is eligible to receive this award once

Required application materials:

  • Research and scholarly activities during the faculty member's service at UTC
  • List of all scholarly publications and/or creative activities
  • List of research grants and contracts awarded or placing in adjudicated creative activities
  • Presentations at regional, national, and international conferences, especially noting invited presentations
  • Invited presentation of creative endeavors, e.g. to play or sing an original musical piece or show original artwork

UTC Research and Creative Achievement Award

Eligibility:

  • Full time tenured or tenure-track faculty member
  • Minimum of three years of completed service at UTC
  • A faculty member is eligible to receive this award once every three years.

Required application materials from only last three years:

  • Research and scholarly activities
  • List of scholarly publications and/or creative activities
  • List of research grants and contracts awarded or placing in adjudicated creative activities
  • Presentations at regional, national, and international conferences, especially noting invited presentations;
  • Invited presentation of creative endeavors, e.g. to play or sing an original musical piece or show original artwork

Service to Students and the Public

UTC Service Award

Eligibility:

  • Full time tenured or tenure-track faculty member
  • Minimum of three years of completed service at UTC
  • A faculty member is eligible to receive this award once every three years.

Required application materials from only last three years:

  • Examples of the service provided and the frequency of the service
  • Input from individuals or entities who are recipients of the service

UTC Advising Award

Eligibility:

  • Full time tenured or tenure-track faculty member
  • Minimum of three years of completed service at UTC
  • A faculty member is eligible to receive this award once every three years.

Required application materials from only last three years:

  • Provide the context of the nature of advising sessions with examples (developmental versus prescriptive)
  • Frequency of different types of activities that take place during advising sessions
  • Student satisfaction with the advising session, e.g., increased knowledge of academic environment, understanding career goals, etc.
  • Number and evidence of the quality of advising sessions
  • Examples of assisting the students with educational challenges, e.g. class schedule preparation, getting registered for a bottleneck or full class, advising a student regarding how to manage a job and class schedule, or working with students throughout a semester, just to mention a few examples

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