September 28, 2005 Source: Wilfrid Laurier University:
http://www.wlu.ca/news_detail.php?grp_id=0&nws_id=877&filter_type=notice Nomination call for Arts Teaching Scholar Award The annual Faculty of Arts 'Teaching Scholar Award' recognizes the teaching excellence of our Arts faculty members and affirms the importance of teaching in the Faculty's distinctive mission. Rationale : The vital mission of a Faculty of Arts is to engage the next generation in the critical spirit,
intellectual and creative attainments, and scholarly methods of our past, as well as new and emerging
variations upon those academic traditions. Good teaching and good scholarship are inextricably linked. Demonstrated excellence in emphasizing this connection will be the central criterion for determining the
Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award. The Teaching Scholar Award will honour a faculty member who integrates explicitly and creatively the
profession's twin functions of scholarly research and teaching. The Award will accordingly be granted to
someone who has made successful efforts to identify and develop the pedagogical means by which this
integration can be especially well achieved. Process: Faculty, staff or students can submit nominations. A nomination for the award should comprise
two elements. First, it should provide a curriculum vitae confirming that the nominee has made ongoing
contributions to his/her disciplinary or multi-disciplinary field(s) of specialization. Second, the nomination
should provide strong, concrete evidence of the nominee's extraordinary efforts and accomplishments in
pedagogical theory and/or practice in integrating the fields of research and teaching . A nomination dossier,
of no more than 25 pages, should accompany the CV, and could comprise any of the following: evidence – e.g., excerpts from the nominee's syllabi or other; written testimonials from colleagues or staff here or elsewhere, and from past and present students, about the nominee's successful integration of scholarship and teaching; results of official and/or informal student ratings or course evaluations. a written statement by the nominee.In addition to a CV and a nominations dossier, nominations may include authored documents - textbooks,
learning materials, articles, conference papers, etc. – if these identify or demonstrate the ways in which the
nominee has successfully aimed at integrating scholarship and pedagogy. Nominations should be submitted
to the Dean of Arts, who will chair a Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award Committee comprising three
faculty members (including two previous Teaching Award winners) and two students (chosen by the student
caucus of the Arts Council). The deadline for nominations is December , 2005. The winner will be 9th
announced in time for the FOA Awards Ceremony in late January. A $1,000 donation in the winner's name
will be made to the University or Faculty prize, award or fund of his/her choice. DEADLINE - December 9th 2005 Faculty of Arts
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