UMKC Faculty Awards for Teaching
Please submit nominations to awards@umkc.edu by December 15, 2023 January 15, 2024 (deadline extended).
Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching
These awards recognize and celebrate UMKC faculty who are consistently excellent teachers at the graduate, undergraduate or professional level, as evidenced by multiple measures of teaching effectiveness.
The Provost’s Awards for Teaching will be given in the following four categories:
- Early Career Tenure-Track: Assistant or Associate Professor, Pre-Tenure
- Early Career Ranked or Unranked NTT, employed at UMKC ≤ 6 years: Assistant Teaching Professor, Assistant Clinical Professor, Full-Time Instructor, Full-time Lecturer
- Mid-career or Senior Faculty: Tenured Associate Professor or Professor
- Mid-career or Senior Faculty, Ranked or Unranked NTT, employed at UMKC > 6 years: Associate Teaching Professor, Teaching Professor, Associate Clinical Professor, Clinical Professor, Full-time Instructor, Full-time Lecturer
Teaching Award Nomination Materials:
☐ Teaching Award Cover Page (link here) (Google chrome users: right click the link, select copy link address and paste in a new tab in the browser)
☐ Letter of nomination, 5-page maximum
The letter of nomination may be written by any full-time faculty member, Chair, or Dean. The letter may be signed by multiple individuals, but a primary nominator must be identified. The letter should summarize at least two measures by which the nominee exhibits teaching excellence (e.g., student evaluations, peer observation, student learning outcomes, student achievements, etc).
☐ An abbreviated professional CV for the nominee that includes employment history and teaching-related activities (5-page limit)
☐ A table listing courses taught over the past 5 years*. The nominee can create this from within myVITA or the nominator can create a custom table. *Note that any teaching evaluations for that period available in RooEval or Q-Eval will be made available to the selection committee and do not need to be submitted with the nomination.
The materials above must be submitted as a single PDF to awards@umkc.edu by January 15, 2024.
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
This award recognizes and celebrates UMKC faculty who demonstrate exceptional mentoring of graduate students, interns, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and/or junior faculty colleagues.
The Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring is expanding to allow nominations to recognize not only exceptional mentoring of graduate students but also exceptional mentoring of other important learner categories including interns, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and/or junior faculty colleagues. The eligibility requirements are also expanding as shown below.
Eligibility. All full-time UMKC faculty are eligible to be nominated for this award including tenure-track and tenured faculty, ranked and unranked NTT clinical, teaching, and research faculty, full-time Instructors and full-time Lecturers.
Consideration for evaluating mentorship of graduate students: Demonstrated record of graduate teaching excellence; a demonstrated record of chairing graduate supervisory committees with timely completion rates; an established record of mentoring and student professional development as demonstrated by examples such as student publications, external grant funding, and conference presentations; an ability to attract graduate students to UMKC through active recruitment and academic/scholarly reputation; and a demonstrated commitment to diversity in the mentoring process.
Consideration for evaluating mentorship of interns, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and/or junior faculty colleagues: Demonstrated record of mentoring excellence that has had a positive impact on the professional development and success of the mentees in areas such as educational attainment, career progression, external grant funding, and promotion or tenure.
Mentoring Award Nomination Details
☐ Mentoring Award Cover Page (link here) (Google chrome users: right click the link, select copy link address and paste in a new tab in the browser)
☐ Letter of nomination, 5-page limit
The letter of nomination may be written by any full-time faculty member, Chair or Dean. The letter may be signed by multiple individuals, but a primary nominator must be identified. The letter should summarize the nominee’s mentoring activities relevant to the considerations noted above and provide evidence of mentoring impact.
☐ Comments from past or current mentees (3-page limit. Do not solicit from current students)
☐ An abbreviated CV for the nominee with emphasis on mentoring activities (5-page limit)
The materials above must be submitted as a single PDF to awards@umkc.edu by January 15, 2024.
Elmer F. Pierson Good Teaching Award
(Generously sponsored by the UMKC Alumni Association)
Awarded annually to outstanding teachers in Bloch School and Schools of Dentistry, Law and Medicine:
- Bloch criteria: A Faculty Awards Committee (including two representatives of the SBPA Student Association) screens applicants on the basis of student evaluation ratings; development of teaching materials, concepts and examples, and techniques; peer reputation; and other evidence of dedication to teaching.
- Dentistry criteria: Alumni and faculty may nominate full- or part-time faculty, who are judged by the Dean’s Advisory Committee on the basis of the supervisor’s detailed evaluation of teaching performance, student evaluations, peer recommendations, and (optional to committee) candidate interviews.
- Law criteria: Dean reviews number and types of courses taught, innovation in methods, student evaluations, and reputation among peers with a representative on the Alumni Association Board.
- Medicine criteria: The school’s Faculty Awards Review Committee review candidates that should be full time regular or non-regular faculty of the medical school for at least 5 years based on the strength of learner evaluations, creative and innovative teaching methods and skills, and educational leadership.
Nomination materials should include the following:
- Nomination Letter (should address each of the qualities listed in the applicable unit’s criteria above with documented examples to support nomination)
- Nominee’s Curriculum Vitae
- Nominee’s Personal Philosophy of Teaching Statement
- Letters of Support
- Other Supporting Materials
Nomination materials should appear in the nomination portfolio in the order listed above. Use the latest Adobe software (available through UMKC Remote Labs) to convert documents to PDF format (scan hard-copy letters or documents and save as Searchable PDF files). Merge all nomination documents in the order shown above by using the “Combine>Merge files …” feature of Adobe software. Name files as outlined above (see bold text); when the files are merged into one document, the document automatically creates an “index” by file name.
Submissions
Please submit nomination portfolio to awards@umkc.edu by January 15, 2024.