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E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award
Established to Recognize Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching
Call for Nominations
Due Date: April 29, 2009
Award: $3,000
Criteria for Selection:
Excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level that
- is creative and innovative
- engages students with other learners
- causes students to think critically
- promotes understanding of contexts
Evidence that the above are met, including
- documentation of student learning
- presentations and publications about teaching innovations and their results addressed to peers, both inside and outside Miami University
- letter from the department chair
Faculty members who have taught at Miami for a minimum of two years are eligible.
The Office of the Provost and the Committee for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELTUA) invite nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by faculty and department chairs. Nominations must be in the form of a letter, addressed to Marianne Cotugno, Chair of CELTUA, in care of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment, or emailed to Alicia Miller <mille226@muohio.edu>. The nomination letter should be no more than one page in length, speaking briefly to the criteria , and must be received by April 29, 2009. Supporting material, including a chair’s recommendation letter, will be requested at a later date.
The selection process proceeds in two steps. All nominated faculty members will receive an invitation letter with details about the submission of preliminary materials, which will be due May 27, 2009. Based upon these preliminary materials, CELTUA will then select up to five finalists who will provide teaching portfolios, due October 1, 2009, for CELTUA’s final review. The award recipient will be announced at the December commencement.
Candidates in the final round are eligible for other teaching recognition such as the $1,000 CELTUA Teaching Excellence Award or Miami honoree at the Celebration of Teaching of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities. An individual's award sums for any combination of these awards may not exceed $3,000.
Previous Knox Award Winners
| Year | Name | Department |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Osama Ettouney | Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering |
| 1996 | Don Kaufman | Zoology |
| 1997 | Steven Bauer | English |
| 1998 | Glenn Platt | Economics |
| 1999 | Claire Boge | Music |
| 2000 | Joan Fopma-Loy | Nursing-Hamilton |
| 2001 | Kay Snavely | Management |
| 2002 | Timothy Melley | English |
| 2003 | Yildirim Dilek | Geology |
| 2004 | Jeffrey Sommers | English-Middletown |
| 2004 | Philip Cottell | Accountancy |
| 2005 | Robert Vogel | Communication |
| 2006 | Anna Dollár | Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering |
| 2006 | Kathy McMahon-Klosterman | Educational Psychology |
| 2007 | Olga Brezhneva | Mathematics and Statistics |
| 2008 | Cathy Bishop-Clark | Computer & Information Technology-Middletown |