Teaching Awards FAQ
Eligibility
A faculty member must have a continuing appointment at The University of Texas at Austin in the year subsequent to their selection. Eligible nominees must be in good standing with the University.
Submission Instructions
Nominations for University faculty teaching awards are submitted by each college or school to the Provost’s Office. To find out how you may be nominated by your college or school, please reach out to the designated faculty awards contact below.
| Architecture | Sofia Roy |
| Business | Erin Negron |
| Civic Leadership | Meg Campbell |
| Communication | Clare Boyle |
| Education | Sonja Runberg |
| Engineering | Theresa Lavorgna |
| Fine Arts | Lyndsey Helmstetter |
| GeoSciences | Jessica Yeager |
| Information | Dona Kurtz |
| Law | Michelle George |
| Liberal Arts | Kacie Vanecek |
| Dell Medical | Ashleigh Moses |
| Natural Sciences | Christina Christiansen-Hedge |
| Nursing | Bart Hopkins |
| Pharmacy | Carrie Cunningham |
| Public Affairs | Pat Wong |
| Social Work | Sharon Brennan |
All final nomination packages for the Faculty Teaching Awards shall be submitted electronically to the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost via the airtable form linked on the submission section of each award from the respective Dean’s office.
Faculty Teaching Awards will be administered by Faculty Affairs. Inquiries can be sent to teachingawards@utexas.edu.
All required nomination documents must be received at the provost’s office by the respective deadline or the nomination may not be considered.
Frequently Asked Questions
For the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards, the William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, the Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, and the Academy of Distinguished Teachers
The university-wide teaching awards selection process is an annual holistic assessment that evolves with each new selection committee formed from faculty across the disciplines. The committees are instructed to review the chartered guidelines for each award with the autonomy to then create an assessment matrix with CIS scores potentially being one component of the assessment. What we seek with the infusion of new faculty and a freshly interpreted holistic selection process is that awards will reflect the evolution of teaching excellence in its many diverse forms on campus.
CIS scores are available for authorized users through Faculty Profile. To retrieve CIS reports in Faculty Profile, first select the faculty member using their EID or college/school and department. Next, go to the Courses tab, and click on the link titled, Download Course Ratings (20229-Current). For nominations that allow the inclusion of student comments, use the Explorance Blue platform to find full course survey information for a faculty member, including student comments. Comments should be copied and/or downloaded, and formatted with the course title, semester, and academic year above the associated comments.
Address letters of recommendation to “Award Name Selection Committee.”
The page limits for each section are the total number of pages allowed for all materials in that section. For example, the three-page limit for letters of support means that this section of the nomination packet may not exceed three pages total.
Faculty not on a tenure track who are primarily engaged in instruction.