The Boulder Faculty Assembly Awards for Excellence in Teaching, 2012

The Boulder Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce that up to four (4) awards for excellence in teaching will be awarded for spring 2012. Each award will be in the amount of $3,000.

Emphasis will be on actual classroom teaching for all four awards.

Nomination Instructions

Nominations should not be "recycled" from the past, but rather should be prepared for this award cycle. Nominating packets must contain the following materials in the following order:

1. A cover letter from the person nominating the faculty member. If several people are nominating the faculty member they should jointly prepare one cover letter and cosign it.
2. 3 to 6 testimonial letters from faculty members. Letters may be prepared and jointly signed by more than one faculty member. Submit signed letters if at all possible. If a signature is not possible, please include a copy of the email to which the letter was attached for confirmation purposes.
3. 3 to 6 testimonial letters from students currently enrolled at UCB. Testimonial letters should not be submitted by students currently enrolled in the nominee's classes to avoid possible conflicts of interest. Students’ testimonial letters should not be addressed to the nominee, but may be addressed to the nominator or to the selection committee.
4. The official FCQ summary of course and instructor ratings from the nominee's student course evaluations.
5. The official FCQ reports for the nominee’s 10 most recently-taught courses.
6. A sample of no more than 10 individual FCQs.
7. The candidate's curriculum vitae.

**Other supporting materials relating to the nominee's excellence as a teacher may be included if appropriate but must follow the items on the list above.

About Nominees

• Nominees will be members of the Boulder Campus Faculty Senate teaching in any semester or term in the academic year, including instructors.
• Nominations are solicited from departments as well as from individual faculty members.
• Teaching Awards will not be given twice to the same person. Nominators are encouraged to visit www.Colorado.edu/BFA/archives/pastawards.html to determine whether potential nominees have received the award previously and are therefore not eligible to be nominated.
• Nominators are advised to present the names of only those colleagues who will be on campus during the spring semester 2012.  Nominations must include the nominee’s spring teaching schedule, including class titles, class period times, and room numbers.

The deadline for receipt of complete nomination packets is Wednesday, February 15,  2012.

Nomination packets may be delivered in electronic form as a single "pdf" file, or in paper format. Only complete packets will be accepted. Packets may be delivered to the BFA Excellence Awards Selection Committees in one of the following ways:

• saved on a USB drive or CD and mailed via campus mail to 046 UCB;
  
• saved on a USB drive or CD and sent via U.S. Mail to:
          Boulder Faculty Assembly
          Excellence Awards Selection Committee
          046 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309;
  
• saved on a USB drive or CD and hand-delivered to 914 Broadway room 1B14;
  
• e-mailed (in a single e-mail message) to BFA Coordinator Sierra Swearingen, at sierra.swearingen@colorado.edu;
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• mailed or delivered in hard copy format to the above address.

A recognition ceremony for award recipients will be held in April, 2012.

The Chancellor's office provides funding for the BFA Excellence Awards.

For more information please contact BFA Coordinator Sierra Swearingen-Todd at sierra.swearingen@colorado.edu or 303-492-6271.