- The President’s Teaching Scholars program designates faculty from all three CU campuses who have been recognized not only for their excellence in teaching, but also in research, scholarship and creative work. Each year the university designates distinguished faculty members as President’s Teaching Scholars. As of December 2006, the program included 49 faculty members from most disciplines. The signature project of the program’s designees is Colorado Classroom Assessment Studies, or CLAS, a research project examining how students best learn and how faculty can best teach. The program has established the President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative, a CU system program for faculty to conduct research and ongoing investigation of learning and teaching.
- Up to 12 Boulder Faculty Assembly excellence awards of $3,000 each are given annually to faculty members in three categories: Teaching; Service; or Research, Scholarly and Creative Work.
- The $20,000 Hazel Barnes Prize annually recognizes one excellent Boulder campus teacher who also has made significant contributions in a field of study. Ecology and evolutionary biology Professor Alexander Cruz received the award in 2006.
- The Faculty Teaching Excellence Program provides an array of opportunities, services and activities for CU-Boulder faculty to reflect on teaching and learning in order to create more engaging interactive learning environments for CU students. The program employs research literature in learning and cognition to design teaching methods that enhance understanding. Emphases on how students learn, as well as pedagogy, are embodied in the program’s offerings. Faculty participants read and discuss the work of scholars whose material covers many disciplines and who represent different theoretical perspectives. The program enhances conversations on campus and nationally about teaching and learning by contributing to scholarship in the field.
