Community Engagement Award for Outstanding Engaged Teaching

Recipients of the Community Engagement Award for Outstanding Engaged Teaching are recognized for implementing innovative and effective teaching that demonstrates community collaboration, institutional impact and deeply engaged, high-quality learning. Service-learning courses will include at least one module in the course requirements that requires students to work in the community to address community identified needs.

Award winners receive a one-time prize of $1,000 and a framed certificate.

Nominations are due to the University of Oklahoma Community Engagement office by November 16, 2020. Submit nominations as a single PDF using the online submission form.

Criteria that will be considered are the degree to which there is evidence of:

• innovative and effective teaching; 
• engaged high-quality teaching;
• community collaboration;
• institutional impact;

Additionally, there should be evidence that students address community identified needs in a service-learning project.

Initiation

The Senior Vice President and Provost will solicit recommendations for the award by September 15 and announce appropriate schedules for processing the nominations. Furthermore, the solicitations will be posted on the appropriate campus website, for access by nominators and faculty on all campuses.

Recommendations

Any current member of the University of Oklahoma faculty or staff may nominate one or more Norman faculty for the Community Engagement Award for Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity. Currently enrolled students may also nominate candidates.

Nominations should be forwarded to the respective dean for review and endorsement prior to final submission. An optional letter from the dean can be included but is not required.

Supporting Documentation

Nomination packets must include the following:

1. current vita for the nominee;
2. up to three letters of reference (including the nominator’s statement of support), supporting the nomination from community partners and students;
3. endorsement from dean;
4. any additional information that may be helpful (such as a letter from the relevant dean).

About the Nominator's Statement of Support

Please explain why you believe the nominee is an outstanding community engaged teacher. Provide a brief description of how the faculty member uses best practices to facilitate community-engaged teaching. What impact has the faculty member had on the department, community, and/or students? How does the faculty member actively and effectively engage with community to address community-identified needs? For service-learning award, please include a description of the service-learning projects students have completed. 

The Community Engagement Advisory Committee shall consider only the formal nominations. The Committee may seek additional data about the nominees from supplemental sources, as appropriate. The Committee shall forward to the Senior Vice President and Provost its recommendation(s) no later than February 1. The Committee also shall transmit all substantiating materials pertaining to all nominees.

The Senior Vice President and Provost will review the nomination materials and recommendation(s) of the Committee and will make the final selection.

The final selection will be announced at the Norman Campus annual Faculty Award Ceremony.

Award winners receive a one-time award of $1,000 and a framed certificate.

This award is hosted by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost. For questions about this award, please contact Joy Pendley in the Center for Faculty Excellence.