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From: g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu
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Subject: Re: Education Awards?
Message-ID: <227.273c2c7d@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 20:36:12 GMT
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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...

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