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Teaching Award for Full-Time Lecturer (all ranks)

Purpose

The purpose of this award is to honor a full-time lecturer faculty member for exemplary performance in the area of teaching in the Luddy School - Indianapolis.

The outstanding teacher demonstrates the superior ability to impart knowledge of chosen topics to students and to stimulate their desire to master these topics. The award recognizes that teaching extends beyond the classroom and includes activities such as mentoring and motivating students either formally or informally.

Each nominee will have had primary classroom responsibility for a course of instruction during one of two immediately preceding semesters, excluding summer sessions. He/She will have made significant contributions to the instructional climate of the School.

The award is a one-time amount of $1,000, typically paid in the month following the committee decision, or shortly thereafter. This amount is subject to change depending upon University policies and procedures, or upon availability of funding.

Eligibility

Nominees must meet the following eligibility requirements:

  • Has been a full-time lecturer faculty member with Luddy-Indy for at least 3 years.
  • Has not received the teaching award in the past 3 years.
  • Can demonstrate a record of cumulative excellence in the area of teaching over the past 3 years.

Procedure

  1. Luddy-Indy students, faculty and staff who can attest to the nominee’s accomplishments may nominate individuals for this award. Self-nominations are also encouraged.
  2. A brief will be prepared for each nominee. This brief will be forwarded to the Awards and Scholarship committee by the individual making the nomination. A maximum of five pages per nomination brief, 12-point font, may be presented. An additional 2 pages of testimony and/or supporting documentation may be attached to the brief. If more than seven pages are received, the nomination will be rejected. It is up to the individual submitting the nominating brief to ensure that procedures are followed.
  3. Do not submit a copy of the nominee’s CV as part of the application materials.

The nomination brief should include the following:

  1. Name of individual submitting nomination;
  2. Name and rank of nominee;
  3. List of courses taught for the past 3 years, with dates and number of students enrolled in each course.
  4. Nominee’s effectiveness to be judged on the following criteria:
    • Instructional effectiveness (for example, data and feedback from all student evaluations relevant to the nominee’s teaching record over the past 3 years)
    • Course instruction, improvement, and innovation
    • Ability to motivate students
    • Availability outside of the normal class time
    • Ability to connect students to careers
    • Evidence of scholarship and creative activities related to teaching and learning, including publications and grants in support to teaching
  5. Nominee’s professional activities:
    • Participation in professional societies
    • Research – how does the research impact or affect the area of teaching? Include publications and grants in support of teaching
    • Mentoring
  6. Honors and awards received by nominee:
    • Academic
    • Professional
  7. A brief narrative describing the ways in which the nominee has demonstrated exemplary and effective teaching how it has made a significant impact on the nominee’s discipline, department, school, university, and wider community.