A Call for Nominations - The NYU Distinguished Teaching Award
We are delighted to invite your nominations for the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. Nominations may be submitted by students, faculty, and alumni. Please note that only full-time faculty members with one of the following titles are eligible to receive the award:
- Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor
- Clinical Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor
- Research Professor, Research Associate Professor, Research Assistant Professor
- Master Teacher, Teacher
Please note that past winners of the award may not be nominated again. For a list of past award recipients, go to the following link: http://www.nyu.edu/provost/faculty/distinguished.teaching.html
As you may know, the award was established to recognize full-time faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the University through their teaching. Recipients of the award will have demonstrated their excellence as educators over a sustained period of time. You may use the following criteria as a guide:
- A record of outstanding teaching effectiveness both within and outside the classroom
- The ability to inspire, promote, and sustain the intellectual development of students
- A pedagogical approach that is innovative (new approaches using current or new models of teaching), intellectually rigorous, creative, and engaging
- Demonstrated scholarly/professional contributions and their integration into the classroom that foster critical thinking and challenge students to independent inquiry
- Advising/mentoring of undergraduate or graduate students or doctoral and clinical supervision-interactions outside of the classroom and the quality of such interactions
- Contribution to developing or enhancing curricula in the field
- Length of service
- Internal school awards/honors received
Please forward your nominations by Friday, November 14th to: Professor Amy Bentley, Chair, Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, either in hard copy to Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, 35 West 4th Street, 10th floor, or electronically to amy.bentley@nyu.edu.