Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Cornelia Lang, associate dean for undergraduate education

I am writing to announce the nomination process for the 2025-2026 Collegiate Teaching Awards. These awards are important for the individual winners, their departments, and for the College as a whole as an endorsement of the high value of excellent teaching in CLAS.

The Collegiate Teaching Awards recognize faculty for teaching excellence over a four-year period. All tenure-track, instructional track, and clinical-track faculty members holding a minimum 50% appointment in CLAS, are eligible to be nominated. This award can only be won once, but previous nominees who did not receive an award are eligible for re-nomination.

A summary of the award criteria is as follows: 

  • a sustained record of teaching excellence in and out of the classroom
  • a commitment to teaching practices and activities that enhance student learning
  • breadth and depth of high-impact teaching contributions
  • a meaningful, reflective, and evolving approach to teaching and learning

Each department may submit no more than one nomination. The deadline for receipt of all nomination materials is Wednesday, March 4, 2026. 

The instructions for nomination along with the nomination cover page, as well as a list of past recipients, are located on the Collegiate Teaching Award website. All nomination materials must be submitted by the deadline to Jennifer Bertrand, who staffs the CLAS Teaching Awards Committee. 

Selection of six Collegiate Teaching Award winners will be made by the CLAS Teaching Awards Committee, and the Committee seeks a wide selection of nominations from across the college.

We encourage departments to use a nomination process that engages a broad and  representative group of students, faculty members, and administrators to identify outstanding faculty members with sustained records of teaching excellence and commitment to student learning.

Each award carries a $2,000 honorarium.

Please note that as of the 2025-2026 academic year, CLAS will no longer offer the International Engagement Teaching Award or the Outstanding Outreach and Public Engagement Award.

Note: this memo was also published on Nov. 15, 2025.