University Wide Faculty and Staff Awards
2009-2010 Call for Nominations
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty for their teaching excellence. Students, faculty, and alumni may nominate faculty; and a committee of students, faculty, and alumni chooses the recipients.
Recipients are recognized with a $3,000 honorarium made possible by gifts from The Ohio State University Alumni Association, University Development, and the Office of Academic Affairs. In addition, the Office of Academic Affairs awards an increase of $1,200 to each recipient's base salary.
Full-time, regular faculty members on all campuses with the rank of instructor through full professor in the clinical or tenure track who, in the past three years, have taught undergraduate and/or graduate/professional students are eligible for this award. Previous recipients of this award, senior lecturers, lecturers, and graduate teaching associates are not eligible. For a listing of previous recipients, check online at: http://www.osu.edu/universityawards/2009/teaching.html.
Nominations should include the nominee's name and rank (Check for faculty rank at http://www.osu.edu/findpeople.php.), department, reasons for nomination, the nominator's name and e-mail address or telephone number, and identification as an undergraduate student, a graduate student, a professional student, faculty member, or alumna/us.
Criteria and Frequently Asked Questions
Nominations may be submitted in one of the following ways:
- by submitting online at: http://www.osu.edu/teachingaward;
- by writing a letter (no more than three pages) and sending it to:
Committee on Alumni Awards for Distinguished Teaching
Office of Academic Affairs
203 Bricker Hall
190 North Oval Mall
Campus; or - by sending an e-mail to dtacomm@osu.edu.
The deadline is Friday, October 16, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. For further information, please contact Trent Bower, Office of Academic Affairs, at dtacomm@osu.edu or at 614-292-5881.
