jff@groucho (Jim Frenzel) (11/09/90)
Our Electrical Engineering department is considering faculty annual faculty awards for teaching and research. I would be interested in hearing from other schools with similar awards how nominations are collected and evaluated. -- =========================================================== Jim Frenzel Electrical Engineering University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 208-885-7888 jfrenzel@groucho.mrc.uidaho.edu
gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary Newell) (11/09/90)
In article <1990Nov08.234642.29304@groucho>, jff@groucho (Jim Frenzel) writes: > Our Electrical Engineering department is considering faculty annual > faculty awards for teaching and research. I would be interested in > hearing from other schools with similar awards how nominations are > collected and evaluated. Here at Arizona the college of Arts and Sciences has awards for distinguished lecturers who are nominated by their departments. Unfortunately, in my opinion (I'm a grad student), the award has very little to do with teaching skill and has more to do with "who hasn't gotten the $1000 yet?" - it is really a shame since there are many quality faculty members here who can in fact teach very well. I for one would say that having any kind of teaching award without DIRECT, decisive input from students is absurd. They are the ones who know who the best teachers are - not the dept. head, not other faculty...... gln
g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (11/11/90)
In article <1990Nov08.234642.29304@groucho>, jff@groucho (Jim Frenzel) writes: > Our Electrical Engineering department is considering faculty annual > faculty awards for teaching and research. I would be interested in > hearing from other schools with similar awards how nominations are > collected and evaluated. > > -- > =========================================================== > Jim Frenzel Electrical Engineering > University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 > 208-885-7888 jfrenzel@groucho.mrc.uidaho.edu My two cents follows. Don't do it unless you have 100 or so faculty members in the department. I'm chairman of my university's teacher of the year award's committee. The committee is made up of seven members: six members are former Teachers of the Year (I'm not!). We use strict criteria with subcriteria in teaching, in community and university achievements, and in research. The criteria are widely published (as is the evaluation process). Departments are allowed to select among the faculty persons to be nominated. The departments and the nominees are required to submit full documentation (as must as possible) for the criteria. The departments may select a faculty by any method it chooses; nominees are normally chosen by the faculty evaluation committees as a result of the committees' work on yearly evaluations. Normally, only 5 to 15 departments submit nominees. Evaluations of the nominees are made for a full THREE years of service. The evaluations are done by the committee members INDEPENDENTLY, and the individual rankings are given to the chairman for final tally. We have over 400 faculty. Will much less the award might become a rotation and even may be questioned. George... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- George C. Harrison --------------- INTERNET: g_harrison@vger.nsu.EDU -- ----- Professor of Computer Science -------------------------------------- ----- Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia ----------------------- -------- Any views expressed here are my own and are not necessarily ----- -------- those of the University, my family, or anyone else. ------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------