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- Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
The Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (EUTA) encourages and honors outstanding teaching at NIU. It also promotes discussion about teaching excellence and improvement on campus. Undergraduate students have a major role in selecting faculty for the annual award. Their comments on nominees' qualifications are considered in the process, along with those of faculty, administrators and others.
Each department nominates a faculty member by providing their college with nomination materials. The colleges then select nominees for consideration by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Academic Experience (CIUAE). The committee chooses the award recipients.
If you have any questions about the award or nomination process, contact the CIUAE chair, Farah Ishaq at fishaq@niu.edu.
2023 Award Winners
Bill Cassidy
Department of Communication
Scott Sibley
School of Family and Consumer Sciences
Criteria and Eligibility
Nominees for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (EUTA) should:
- Help their students grow in appreciation and knowledge of their subject area.
- Vary their methods of instruction to meet students' needs.
- Support students outside of class time.
- Receive consistently positive teaching evaluations.
- Have in-depth knowledge of their subject area and its teaching methods.
- Work to improve undergraduate education at NIU.
In order to be eligible, a nominee must:
- Be a tenured or tenure-track faculty member at NIU with regular teaching responsibilities.
- Have completed at least five full academic years at NIU as a tenure-track faculty member.
- Have taught at least six evaluated course sections at the undergraduate level over the last three years.
An individual can only receive the EUTA once. Members of the CIUAE are not eligible.
Timetable/Deadlines
Date | Activity |
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October 10, 2023 | Competition opens. CIUAE notifies deans and department chairs, who notify faculty and student advisory committees. |
December 15, 2023 | Nominations due to departments (suggested deadline). |
January 5, 2024 | Nominations due to colleges (suggested deadline). |
January 29, 2024 | Nominations due to CIUAE (firm deadline). |
March 25, 2024 | Applicants and chairs notified of results. |
April 2024 | Awards presented at Faculty Awards Ceremony. |
Nomination Form and Process
In general, the nomination process is as follows:
- Department receives nominations; may interview nominees or request updated CVs.
- Department selects nominee and sends nomination materials to college.
- College selects nominee(s), adds information to nomination materials and submits to the CIUAE.
- CIUAE selects recipients.
Departments and colleges must ensure there is no discrimination based on race, sex, age or other characteristic not related to teaching ability.
Nominees may not participate in the selection process. Anyone assisting in the process must remove themselves from consideration.
Department Nomination Process
Each department can select one nominee. The department's student advisory committee should make the selection, or the department should follow procedures set by the department and committee. Undergraduate students from a range of department programs should form at least half of any selection committee.
Faculty and administrators can assist students with the nomination process by:
- Providing a list of eligible faculty members.
- Ensuring consideration of those who regularly teach introductory and general education courses.
- Mentoring the advisory committee.
- Serving on a selection committee.
- Organizing nomination materials.
- Requesting nomination and recommendation letters through newsletters or other means.
If the department doesn't have a student advisory committee, a faculty committee can submit a nominee. Student input should still be considered and must be documented.
Departments must provide complete nomination materials to their college:
- Completed nomination form (all six prompts).
- Uploaded letters of recommendation.
- Certification that department procedures met requirements.
College Nomination Process
The number of nominees a college can submit to the CIUAE depends on its percentage of total university faculty. The number of nominees for the academic year are:
- College of Business: 1
- College of Engineering and Engineering Technology: 1
- College of Education: 2
- College of Health and Human Sciences: 2
- College of Visual and Performing Arts: 2
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: 4
The college's student advisory committee, or similar group, should consider nominations received from all the college's departments when selecting nominee(s).
The college must add information to the nomination form and submit it to the CIUAE by the specified deadline.
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