Excellence Awards

The College of Arts and Communication offers Excellence Awards in Teaching, Research, Service and Academic Advising annually to faculty or academic staff members holding at least a .5 teaching appointment. This year's winners are:

For Teaching Excellence and Roseman Nominee: Barbara Penington, Communication
For Research: Steve Wiest, Music
For Service: Barbara Grubel, Theatre/Dance
For Academic Advising: Peter Conover, Communication

NOMINATION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Each department shall determine the method of choosing its nominee. The process is as follows:

1. Department forwards name of nominee to the Associate Dean's Office by noon on January 29, 2007.
2. Nominee forwards completed application to the Dean's Office by the end of the day, Friday, February 2, 2007.
3. College Selection Committee meets and forwards name of recipient by February 13, 2007.

There are 4 groups formed each year to make the selections:

College Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee
College Excellence in Research Committee
College Excellence in Service Committee
College Excellence in Academic Advising

Each department shall forward 4 names, one for each Selection Committee, to the Associate Dean by January 29, 2007. The Selection Committees will meet sometime between February 5 and February 13.

The College recipients of the Excellence Awards are automatically forwarded as the college's nominees for the Roseman Award and the University-wide Faculty Service and Outstanding Research Awards.

NOMINATION INFORMATION

The completed nomination packet should contain the following items:

• A letter of nomination from the Chair for all nominees.

TEACHING AWARD

1. A concise State of Teaching Philosophy of no more that two pages. This statement should address such questions as: (1) What are the most important themes of your teaching based on your beliefs about learning and the nature of your discipline? (2) What innovations or new ideas have you incorporated into your teaching in the past year and what have been the results of these innovations? (3) How do you help students facilitate integration of your subject matter into their personal lives? (4) What have you learned from your students about learning, teaching, or the subject matter? (5) How are you continuing to develop in ways which affect your teaching?
2. Four letters of support: two from students, one current and one an alumnus, and two from colleagues who have had the opportunity to observe the nominee's teaching.
3. Other supportive documentation of teaching, if appropriate, (syllabi, journals, etc.)
4. List of courses taught within the last three years with student course evaluations (numerical) provided for each of the courses. Please include a copy of your department's student evaluation form and a written summary/interpretation of the results by the Chair.

The following guidelines are consistent with University Award procedures:

COLLEGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH (CREATIVE WORK)

Application procedures -- material must consist of the following:

1. The nominee's resume of research activities. The resume should be organized according to the outline below. Items within each category should be listed in reverse chronological order. Activities in progress or results not yet accepted for presentation or publication should be excluded.
    
   1. Bibliography of professional publications. (Attach photocopies of title pages of publications and evidence if publications were referred.)
   2. Dates, places, and descriptions of professional exhibits and performances. (Attach evidence if exhibits or performances were juried.)
   3. Author(s), titles, meetings, and dates of papers presented at professional meetings.
   4. Principal investigator(s), project titles, funding sources, amounts funded, and project periods for grants received.
   5. Other evidence or previous recognition of research including fellowships, honors, and awards. (Give year of each.)
       
2. Letters of recommendation from two respected scholars. Scholars from on or off campus writing letters of recommendation should (1) include a paragraph outlining their own position in the field, (2) discuss the impact of the nominee's research or artistic work in the field, and (3) limit their letters to a maximum of three pages.

COLLEGE FACULTY SERVICE AWARD

“Service” is defined as contributions to the University, as well as professional and public services activities.

The application, in addition to the letter of nomination, should include a listing of:

1. Contributions to the University include contributions to the governance, administration, operation, reputation, or advantage of the University or the University system.
2. Professional and public service consists of contributions to one's discipline, art, profession, or to society, provided that such contributions are made as a practitioner of one's discipline, art, profession, or as a representative of the University or University system. Research activities are excluded from consideration for this award.

Additional letters of support, not exceeding three, may be submitted.

COLLEGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ADVISING

To be eligible, a faculty or staff member must have served as an academic advisor for a minimum of five years in the College of Arts and Communication at UW-W. No more than one nominee from each academic department will be considered for the award. The candidate's file must include:

1. Nomination of the candidate by his or her home department.
2. A record of the candidate's advising work including: The number of advisees seen each semester, the number of years the candidate has served as an academic advisor, any awards or honors received that are relevant to academic advising, identification of any additional academic advising service provided by the candidate (in the department, college or university) and indications of the success of the candidate's advisees.
3. A letter of support from the Chair of the candidate's home department.
4. At least two letters of support from current or former advisees (students or alumni).