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Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award

Selection Criteria

The awards will be based upon the abilities of each nominee in the following areas  of  Teaching, Advising and Mentoring:

  • 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 and graduate students and or/ clinical supervision-interactions outside of the classroom.
  • Contribution to developing or enhancing curricula in the field.
  • Length of service (specify length of service to Steinhardt and to NYU).
  • Internal school awards/honors received.

Eligibility

  • Open to full-time, clinical, tenure-track, and part-time adjunct faculty members.
  • Must have taught at Steinhardt for at least 5 years.
  • If an adjunct teaches courses in both Steinhardt and another NYU School, they are eligible for the adjunct award, unless they have a formal affiliation with the other School.
  • Research associates and visiting faculty are not eligible for the award.
  • If a faculty member has won the Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award in the past five years,  they are ineligible for Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award.

Procedures

  1. The Selection Committee is appointed by the Dean. The Committee composition includes four faculty members from Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, one adjunct faculty, four students (two graduate and two undergraduate students), and one member of the administration.
  2. The Committee solicits nominations (no self-nomination allowed),  letters and statements of support from faculty, students, alumni and administrators.
  3. A faculty member who is nominated will be notified. The nominee must provide the following items:
    1. Curriculum Vitae (no page limit)
    2. Statement of teaching philosophy (3 page limit)
    3. Summary of student course evaluations of the past three years (3 page total limit)
    4. Other supporting materials for the criteria listed such as publications, syllabi/excerpts from syllabi, etc. that reflect the activities in the nominee’s classes, letters of recommendations from students and other faculty (7 page total limit)
  4. Nominations are due no later than November 16 with notification given to the nominees.  The nominees will then have approximately three months to submit supporting materials to the selection committee, due no later than January 9.
  5. The Committee will review the nominee’s packet in January, 2019 and recommend the candidate’s for the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Teaching Excellence of the Year Awards and report them to the Dean.

Nomination Submission

To nominate a faculty member, complete an submit the NYU Steinhardt Teaching Awards Nomination Form