The Metropolitan State University of Denver Faculty Senate is accepting applications for the 2023 Faculty Senate Teaching Excellence Awards. Please consider applying or nominating a fellow faculty member to apply for this recognition of the outstanding efforts faculty members make.
There are four awards, each for $1,500: Tenured Faculty, Tenure Track Faculty, Category II, and Affiliate (part-time).
Qualifications
The Faculty Senate Teaching Excellence Awards are intended to honor individuals who demonstrate excellence in teaching by:
- Showing enthusiasm for their subject matter and imparting that enthusiasm to students.
- Demonstrating inclusive teaching practices.
- Cultivating accessibility and open rapport with students.
Applicants for the tenured and tenure-track awards must be full-time and must have taught full-time or worked an equivalent load during both semesters of the 2022-23 academic year. Applicants for the Category II and affiliate awards must have taught classes during both semesters of 2022-23. The Teaching Excellence Awards Committee is committed to evaluating face-to-face, online and hybrid teaching and encourages all faculty members to consider applying for this prestigious award.
Please direct questions to Lisa Kindleberger Hagan.
Application process
All applications must be received by Wednesday, March 10, at 11:59 p.m.
A complete application will include the following:
- Completed application form on Qualtrics, which will contain:
- A teaching philosophy.
- A Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement.
- A letter of recommendation from a faculty member/instructor who has observed your teaching.
- Official student comments from any two classes between fall 2021 and fall 2022. See below for assistance in accessing your student comments.
Accessing official student comments from Watermark/Digital Measures
- Log in to Watermark/Digital Measures.
- At the top of the page, click on Reports.
- Run a report called “SRI Report” with the dates of fall 2019-fall 2021.
- When reviewing your report, control-click where it says “Official student comments” highlighted in light blue below each course. Look for a course that best represents your teaching. Save the comments from that course as a PDF file. Please do that for two courses. These PDF files will be uploaded into the Qualtrics survey.
