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E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award
Established to Recognize Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching
Call for Nominations
Due Date: February 21st, 2012
Award: $3,000
Criteria for Selection:
Excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level that uses creative and innovative methods to
- Disseminate knowledge
- Cause students to think critically
- Promote understanding of contexts, and
- Improve and engage students with the learning experience
Evidence that the above are met should focus on the innovation employed in either (1) one specific course you teach or (2) a technique you have developed that you employ across several courses, and must include
- Documentation of student learning
- Recognition by students
- Evidence that the teaching method is new to your field or novel to higher education
- A 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, Teaching, and University Assessment (CELTUA) invite nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by faculty and department chairs.
The Office of the Provost, the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment and the Committee for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment Teaching invite nominations for this award. Faculty and department chairs may make nominations. Nominations must be in the form of an email to the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment at celt@muohio.edu. Receipt from a valid Miami University email address will be considered proof of signature. The nomination letter should be no more than one page in length, speaking briefly to the criteria, and must be received by February 21st, 2012. 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 March 21st, 2012. Based upon these preliminary materials, the CELTUA committee will then select up to five finalists who will provide teaching portfolios, due October 1, 2012, for committee’s final review. The award recipient will be announced at the December commencement. Example portfolios from award winners are available for review.
Candidates chosen for the final round are eligible for other teaching recognition such as the $1,000 CELTUA Teaching Excellence Award or being Miami honoree at the Celebration of Teaching of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities. An individual's combination of 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 |
| 2009 | Stacey Lowery Bretz | Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| 2010 | Joseph Johnson | Psychology |
| 2011 | Kathleen N. Johnson | English |