The Boulder Faculty Assembly Awards for Excellence in Teaching, 2010

The Boulder Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce that up to four (4) awards for excellence in teaching will be awarded for spring 2010. 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.
4. The official FCQ summary of course and instructor ratings from the nominee's student course evaluations.
5. A sample of no more than 10 individual FCQs.
6. 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 from general faculty, (i.e. members of the Boulder Campus Faculty Senate) teaching in any semester or term in the academic year, including instructors, and are solicited from departments as well as individual faculty members.
• They also may be self-nominated
• The award will not be given to the same person in successive years
• Nominators are advised to present the names of only those colleagues who will be on campus during the spring semester 2010.
• Nominators are advised to present the names of only those colleagues who will be available to serve on the 2011 BFA Execellence Awards Selection Committee.

The deadline for receipt of complete nomination packets is Friday, February 5,  2010.

Nomination packets will be forwarded to the Selection Committees electronically and/or as photocopies, so please do not place submissions in three-ring binders, documents sleeves, etc. Complete nomination packets may be submitted to the BFA Excellence Awards Selection Committee in one of the following ways:

• Hand delivered to 914 Broadway, room 1B14
• Sent via campus mail to 046 UCB
• Sent via USPS to:
          Boulder Faculty Assembly
          BFA Excellence Awards Selection Committee
          046 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309
• E-mailed as PDFs to Maureen Ryan at Maureen.Ryan@colorado.edu

A recognition ceremony for award recipients will be held on March 31, 2010

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

Please contact Maureen Ryan at 2-6271 or Maureen.Ryan@colorado.edu with any questions.