Penn State recognizes extraordinary teachers of undergraduate students
through three awards for undergraduate teaching, the Milton S. Eisenhower
Award for Distinguished Teaching, the George W. Atherton Award for
Excellence in Teaching, and the Penn State Alumni Association Award for
Excellence in Teaching. The faculty honored are a highly select group with
less than one-percent of full-time faculty considered for these awards each year.
Information about Eisenhower, Atherton, and Penn State Alumni Association Teaching Fellow awards is
available on Penn State's
Awards Recognition
page.
Nominations
If you would like to nominate a faculty member for a teaching award, please
complete the
Teaching Awards Nomination Form. Nominations
are accepted year-round; however, those received after June 30 will be
considered for the following year.
Candidate Selection Process
A brief explanation of the process is listed below. Full details, including
the specific dates, are available at
Timetable for Selection.
Candidate Identification (from nominations) – Nominations are
sent to campus and college administrators. Using the
eligibility criteria
each college and campus determines which nominees will become candidates.
Units do not select candidates for a particular award and are considered
based on their eligibility.
Candidate Packet Preparation – Candidate's academic unit
prepares an
information packet
and submits for review.
Candidate Packet Review – The packets are reviewed by a committee of
peers, including fellow faculty and Administrators from across the university as well as students using the
review criteria.
Final Selection – The review committees prepare a rank-ordered
list of preferred candidates to the president for the final decisions.
