Recognizing Outstanding Instruction

Faculty Nomination

We are accepting nominations of full-time faculty members of any rank who have notable instructional accomplishments, contributions, and impacts at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The nomination categories are identified below. These activities must have occurred between August 2022 and December 2024.

Faculty members may nominate a colleague to their chair/director for consideration. Individual faculty members or a group of faculty may be nominated.

Deadline

For spring 2025 recognition, nominations are due to the college by Monday, January 27, 2025, at 11:59pm.

Chairs/Directors

All nominees must be supported by the department chair or school director. Each unit may nominate a total of three (3) or up to 10% of your full-time faculty members (whichever is the higher number).  Please note that faculty members who were recognized in the past two years (either individually or as part of a group) cannot be nominated again for the same accomplishment but can be nominated for a separate accomplishment.

Submissions

Chairs/directors should use the nomination form to identify their selected candidate(s) according to the Recognizing Outstanding Instruction nomination category. All nominations must be sent to COSAwards@ucf.edu by the deadline.

Nomination Categories

Faculty members or a group of faculty may be nominated for the following categories:

The nomination categories are:

• High-Impact or High-Quality Instruction
  This category highlights faculty members who deliver courses that stand out for the depth of impact and quality of instruction. This may include courses that are officially designated as high-impact. These faculty members deliver learning experiences and impacts that go beyond synthesizing theory to practice and that emphasize and apply the skills gained to excel beyond the classroom and degree.
• Successful Course Design, Redesign, Transformation, or Innovation
  Successful Course Design, Redesign, Transformation or Innovation includes recognition of major course innovations or transformations to improve student success and embrace learning outcomes. This can be the result of developing and designing a new course, taking a closer and deeper look and how and why students are (or are not) successful in a course and adjusting the curriculum to maximize success, or incorporating new and innovative approaches to delivering instruction. In many cases, this design or transformation is applied to courses with massive offerings, again proving that while we are big, we are still definitely focused on quality instruction.
• Individualized Instruction, Supervision, or Mentorship
  The one-on-one experience a student has with a faculty member can be life-changing. In this category we recognize Individualized Instruction, Supervision or Mentorship that stands out beyond what is usually expected of the faculty member and shows evidence of success. These are faculty members who have made individual connections with students and are continually acknowledged as “great instructors” by their students. These are faculty who engage in outreach beyond the classroom and support their students to develop into professionals.

Please submit one form per nominee or group of nominees.