Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

We honor our faculty who provides outstanding graduate teaching

The Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award honors outstanding graduate teaching, which includes: commitment to academic excellence; attention to individual student needs, interests, and development; excellent teaching of graduate courses; and service on thesis and dissertation committees.

Nominees must be full-time tenured or tenure-track Regular Graduate Faculty members who have been on the UNI faculty for a minimum of three years at the time of nomination. A faculty member may receive the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award only once and may not be nominated for any additional University teaching award in the same academic year.

Division of Graduate Studies

Actions

  • Official nomination letters accepted from Graduate Students, Faculty, and Graduate Program Coordinators and must be submitted as a PDF to gradcollege@uni.edu
  • Graduate Studies informs nominees of selection and requests materials.

Deadlines

  • Friday, November 1, 2024: Nominations due to Graduate Studies by 4:30 p.m.
  • Monday, February 10, 2025: Nominee’s submission of digital materials due by 4:30 p.m.
Requirements for Nominees

Nominees will be notified to electronically submit one copy of each of the following materials:

  • A signed cover sheet.
  • A letter of nomination by the nominator.
  • Complete and current vita, focused on graduate teaching.
  • A written narrative that includes the nominee’s philosophy of graduate level teaching and describes the accomplishments related to the award criteria (not to exceed 3 typed pages, 12 inch font, one-inch margins, Times New Roman).
  • One letter of support. It might come from a graduate student mentored by nominee sent directly to gradcollege@uni.edu. Current students are ineligible to submit letters.
Submission of Materials
  • Submit documents as PDF files ONLY to gradcollege@uni.edu.
  • Include your full last name, first name initial and the award title in the folder (Example: DOE, J. Outstanding Teaching Award).
  • Include cover sheet with signatures, CV, and narrative.
  • One "Support letter" on letterhead and signed by the nominator must be sent directly to: gradcollege@uni.edu.
Previous Recipients 2013-2024"
RecipientDepartmentYear
Wendy HoofnagleLanguages & Literatures2023-2024
Eran HankeApplied Human Sciences, School of2022-2023
Sheila BensonLanguages & Literatures2021-2022
David I. Hernandez-SacaSpecial Education2020-2021
Wendy MillerArt2019-2020
Catherine PalczewskiCommunication Studies2018-2019
Heminigild MpunduAccounting2017-2018
Jeremy SchraffenbergerLanguages & Literatures2015-2016
Todd BohnenkampCommunication Sciences & Disorders2014-2015
Dawn Del CarloScience Education2013-2014
Audrey RuleCurriculum & Instruction2012-2013
Previous Recipients 1998-2012
RecipientDepartmentYear
Susan EtscheidtSpecial Education2011-2012
Victoria DeFranciscoCommunication Studies2010-2011
Marybeth StalpSociology, Anthropology & Criminology2008-2009
Lynn NielsenCurriculum & Instruction2007-2008
Ramanathan SugumaranGeography2006-2007
Helen HartonPsychology2005-2006
Samuel GladdenEnglish2004-2005
Catherine ZemanHealth, PE and Recreation2002-2003
Deborah GallagherSpecial Education2001-2002
George K. ZuckerModern Languages2000-2001
Sharon SmaldinoCurriculum & Instruction1999-2000
Jane L. WongPsychology1998-1999