The Meredith Professor Teaching Awards program was proposed by the Meredith Professors to recognize excellence in teaching among untenured faculty. The awards aim to:
- Recognize and encourage teaching excellence among tenure-track faculty in their first five years.
- Recognize and encourage teaching excellence throughout the teaching career among teaching professors, professors of practice and part-time faculty.
- Encourage a campuswide commitment to teaching excellence and to ongoing efforts to improve teaching impact and effectiveness.
The awards are given annually in two categories.
Meredith Professor Teaching Award for Early Performance is presented to faculty who have completed two years of teaching at Syracuse University (at the time of nomination). This award includes a $3,000 prize for professional development.
Eligible nominees include tenure-track faculty who are not yet in their tenure review year; and full-time teaching professors of any rank, professors of practice and part-time faculty who are in their first five years of employment with the University
No fewer than two tenure-track faculty and no fewer than two teaching professors, professors of practice or part-time instructors will be recognized in any given year.
Meredith Professor Teaching Award for Continuing Excellence is presented to non-tenure-track faculty who have completed five or more years of teaching at Syracuse University (at the time of nomination). Eligible nominees include full-time teaching professors of any rank; professors of practice; and part-time faculty who have completed five years of teaching at the University. This award includes a $10,000 prize for professional development
Award funds may be used for expenses that awardees incur in furthering their professional development, such as the purchase of equipment, materials or travel.
Nominations
Nominations may be made by any faculty member with concurrence of the nominee’s department chair or school director, where applicable, and dean. Individuals may not self-nominate.
The nomination packet, which must be submitted as a single PDF, includes a coversheet, a formal nomination letter, a teaching statement, an updated CV, up to three examples of teaching innovations, a peer letter of support, two letters of support from former students and a professional biography.
Nominators can collaborate with colleagues on the submission; single nomination letters from one person or group of people are preferred.
Nominations are due in January.
Selection and Recognition
A review committee, composed of Meredith Professors, past award recipients and students, reviews the nominations and recommends candidates to the Chancellor, who makes the final selections. Awards are presented at the One University Awards Ceremony in April.
For more information, contact Amanda Latreille at 315.443.5413 or arlatrei@syr.edu.