Subject: Teaching Awards-Instructional Staff and TAs
From: "'Shirin M Malekpour' via ls-dept-admins" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:58:36 +0000
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To: L&S Chairs, Directors, and Department Administrators
Action Requested:

  *   Please review information about L&S Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Awards<https://kb.wisc.edu/ls/teaching-excellence-awards> and Campus-Wide TA Awards<https://teachlearn.ls.wisc.edu/ta-awards/>.
  *   Nominate instructional academic staff and TAs by Monday, November 18, 2024.

Questions: Cathy Yu at [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

Dear Colleagues,
I am very excited to highlight the newly established L&S Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Awards<https://kb.wisc.edu/ls/138689>(https://kb.wisc.edu/ls/teaching-excellence-awards).  The call for nominations is attached. The College will honor outstanding instructional academic staff for their excellence in teaching and mentoring undergraduate students. There will be six individual L&S Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Awards($3,000) and one L&S Academic Staff Collaborative Teaching Excellence Award ($6,000 for the team) per year.
Award recipients will encompass the following characteristics:

  *   Advance the educational mission of Letters & Science through evidence-based and student-centered teaching and undergraduate student mentoring
  *   Contribute to an inclusive, fair, and equitable environment that fosters engagement and a sense of belonging for students, and colleagues
  *   Have an exemplary record of collaborative work as a team
  *   Contribute to one or more of the following areas:
     *   Pedagogical Creativity and Innovation
     *   Inclusive Excellence
     *   Promotion of the Liberal Arts
     *   Support of the Wisconsin Idea

We have amazing instructional academic staff in L&S, please help us recognize their contributions to the teaching mission of the College.
Please use this form<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/ofpzgaHoyqNMUDKm8__;!!Mak6IKo!MfVoll0b8G3vv_jSPQMTO1dRhclsnCjIXMqqqSV2Vp_lwcNpXXhTZvHm28LT5WPls86sXQEIuq7GkuEchKwHWxwmo_OryCUnM83_J6E$ > to submit nominations by November 18, 2024.

Please also remember to nominate your excellent graduate student teachers for the Campus-Wide TA Awards<https://teachlearn.ls.wisc.edu/ta-awards/>. Each department may nominate up to three students.  Nominations are also due November 18, 2024.

Thank you,

Shirin

Shirin Malekpour (she/her)
Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning Administration
College of Letters & Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison