Criteria for Teaching Academy Awards
Teaching Academy awards are open to any NMSU educator (full or part-time faculty, graduate students or staff) on any campus.
Teaching Academy Innovation Award
This award is given for an innovation in teaching that has positively impacted student learning. Evidence of a positive impact can include student perceptions, increases in student evaluations, improvements in test scores, and so on. This innovation must have some connection to the Teaching Academy, i.e., you learned about it here or you gave a workshop about it here. (To volunteer to give a workshop contact Jean Conway.) Applications are due every year on the first Monday in March.
The award comes with a trophy and a $1,000 check.
Successful application packets from previous years:
Innovation Award 2011–2012
Kenneth J. Martin, Regents Professor of Finance
Previous Innovation Award winners
Outstanding Workshop
This award is given to the presenter of the Teaching Academy workshop that garners the highest evaluations from 10 or more participants. This award cannot be earned for panel presentations (any presentation with more than two presenters), or twice by the same presenter for the same or similar workshops. (To volunteer to give a workshop contact Jean Conway.)
The award comes with a trophy and a $1,000 check.
Outstanding Workshop Award 2011–2012
Sharna Horn, Coordinator, Sexual and Gender Diversity Resource Center
Previous Outstanding Workshop Award winners
Honorary Member
The person (or persons) who has contributed most substantially to the Teaching Academy or to professional development at NMSU as determined by the Teaching Academy Advisory Board.
Honorary Member 2009–2010
Shelly Stovall, College Assistant Professor, Music
Previously inducted honorary members
Most Distinguished Faculty Member
The faculty member with the most Teaching Academy training hours who has not received the award before.
Most Distinguished Member 2011–2012
Alla Kammerdiner, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Previous most distinguished members
Most Distinguished Graduate Student Member
The graduate student with the most Teaching Academy training hours who has not received the award before.
Most Distinguished Graduate Student Member 2011–2012
Menuka Karki, Graduate Student, Biology
Previous most distinguished members
Most Distinguished Department
The department with the highest average training hours per faculty member AND the broadest range of participation, which has not received the award for at least five years.
Most Distinguished Department 2010–2011
Previous most distinguished departments