Part-Time Teaching Award for Teaching Effectiveness
The Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award is designed to encourage, reward, and publicly acknowledge sustained excellence in teaching by part-time faculty. The award recognizes excellence in teaching practices that reflect the highest standards pedagogy, a record of outstanding teaching effectiveness, the ability to inspire, promote, and sustain the intellectual development of students, course and program development, fostering of critical thinking and independent inquiry of students.
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Award Criteria
The following are non-ranked examples of accomplishments that may be included as evidence:
- Evidence of consistent excellent teaching
- Student success and/or accomplishments
- Advising and/or mentoring of students
- Intellectually rigorous, creative, and engaging pedagogy
- Innovative instructional techniques and technologies
- Evidence of reflective teaching
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Eligibility
Any part-time teaching faculty with a minimum of two (2) years of service at KSU is eligible to be nominated for the award. Administrators with faculty rank are ineligible for faculty awards (i.e., receives a Contract for Faculty Ranked Administrators). Previous award winners of this award (under any of its previous names) are not eligible to apply again. The award recipient must be under contract at KSU when the award is presented. -
Award Amount
Each award consists of $5,000. -
Number and Frequency of Awards
Up to one (1) award may be presented annually, selected based on the qualifications of nominees.