The A. Rufus Tonelson Award annually recognizes members of the university faculty for outstanding achievement in teaching, research and service and who embody the balance of all three areas in their work at ODU. The nomination packet must be completed and delivered to the Alumni Association.
Nomination deadline: Closed - Feb 28, 2013
$2,000, a framed certificate, and a non-reserved campus parking pass for one year
The Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students through their dissertation.
The Faculty Innovator Grant (FIG) program encourages Old Dominion University faculty to explore the use of technology in teaching and learning issues that are targets for improvement and innovation.
The purpose of the Faculty Research Achievement Award is to recognize the accomplishments of faculty who achieve national prominence for high-quality research and scholarship.
The Outstanding Faculty Awards are the Commonwealth's highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities. These awards recognize superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service.
The Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education was established in 2001 to recognize Old Dominion faculty members who have provided outstanding leadership in strengthening the University’s international mission.
The Teaching with Technology Award is a means to recognize the excellence of Old Dominion's faculty and their innovative contributions to the quality of teaching and learning through the application of information technology.
Nomination deadline: Closed - Feb 16, 2013
($3000 per person, for up to 3 awards) to be used to purchase computer equipment, software or conference travel
The designation of University Distinguished Teacher recognizes full-time non-tenure-track and non-tenured faculty members who are outstanding teachers at the undergraduate level.
The outstanding classroom instructor will be selected on the basis of documented student and faculty evaluations of their performance in a lecture format.
The outstanding laboratory instructor will be selected on the basis of student evaluations and documented faculty evaluations of their performance in any type of “laboratory”, i.e. non-lecture format instruction.
Description: The award is named for Alan Rufus Tonelson '33, one of the first students to enroll at Old Dominion when it was founded in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. Tonelson was a loyal alumnus, professor emeritus, university administrator and benefactor.
Criteria: All Old Dominion University faculty currently under full-time teaching and research contracts are eligible. The award, which includes a $2,000 prize, a framed certificate, and a non-reserved campus parking pass for one year, is named for one of Old Dominion's first students, Alan Rufus Tonelson '33, who went on to serve as a professor and administrator of the university. The Tonelson Award is presented in recognition of outstanding achievement in one of three categories – teaching, research, or service. The nomination packet must be completed and delivered to the Alumni Association.
Description: The Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students through their dissertation. Through this award, the Office of Graduate Studies seeks to recognize faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the education, guidance, and professional development of students.
Criteria: Each year, three outstanding faculty members will be recognized by the Office of Graduate Studies with a Doctoral Mentoring Award. Each award recipient will receive $2000. One faculty member in three of six colleges will receive an award one year, and one faculty member from the remaining three colleges will receive an award the following year.
The Awards are presented at the Annual Faculty Recognition and Awards ceremony, in conjunction with other University-wide awards.
Description: The Faculty Innovator Grant (FIG) program encourages Old Dominion University faculty to explore the use of technology in teaching and learning issues that are targets for improvement and innovation. Proposals involving collaboration of two or more faculty members from the same department, or different departments in the same or different colleges, are encouraged.
Criteria: The Faculty Innovator Grant (FIG) program encourages Old Dominion University faculty to explore the use of technology in teaching and learning issues that are targets for improvement and innovation. Proposals involving collaboration of two or more faculty members from the same department, or different departments in the same or different colleges, are encouraged. Faculty members who have not been awarded a Faculty Innovator Grant within the last 12 months are eligible to apply.
Description: The Faculty Research Achievement Award is presented each spring to a tenured member of the ODU faculty who has exhibited consistent excellence in his/her research efforts. The purpose of the award is to recognize the accomplishments of faculty who achieve national prominence for high-quality research and scholarship.
Criteria: All full-time tenured members of the faculty with at least five years of service at ODU are eligible for the award. Full career accomplishments will be considered when a nominee is judged but special evaluative emphasis will be placed upon research actually done while the individual was at this university.
The evaluation of nominees will be based primarily upon considerations of consistent research quality. The primary indicators of quality are peer scholar judgments which are evidence by publications of articles in refereed journals, publications of books and monographs by nationally competitive publishing house, awards and citations by professional associations, and positive reviews of funded research proposals. In addition, consideration will be given to non-professional acclaim for the outcome of research endeavors.
Particular emphasis will be placed upon the consistency of the research record. However, simple quantitative measures, such as the number of articles published or the dollar value of grants and contracts generated, are not sufficient evidence of research quality.
Sponsor:
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)
Description:
The Outstanding Faculty Awards are the Commonwealth's highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and
universities. These awards recognize superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service.
Criteria: A nominee must possess a record of superior accomplishment as a faculty member in Virginia.
A nominee must possess a record of superior accomplishment that reflects strongly the mission of his/her institution. A
nominee’s accomplishments will be judged in relation to the nature/type of his/her nominating institution. Recipients will be selected from
across all sectors of Virginia’s higher education system;
the Selection Committee will endeavor to ensure that the distribution of awardees -- in terms of represented institutional missions -- is not
out of proportion with the overall distribution of faculty across Virginia’s institutional types/missions. To that end, at least one
award shall go to nominees from each of the following four categories: research/doctoral institution, masters/comprehensive institution,
baccalaureate institution, and two-year institution. Other categories of awards include Rising Star and Teaching with Technology.
A nominee must possess a record of superior accomplishment in the four areas of scholarly endeavor described in Ernest Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered(1990, Jossey-Bass): (i)TEACHING; (ii) DISCOVERY; (iii) INTEGRATION of KNOWLEDGEand (iv)Service. A nominee will be judged in each of these four areas (within the context of Criterion #1 above).
A nominee’s record of superior accomplishment mustdemonstrate clear and compelling evidence of thenature, level, and/or degree of a nominee’s:(i) involvement / participation; (ii) effectiveness / success; (iii) impact / achievement; and (iv) recognition / acknowledgement in the areas of teaching, discovery, knowledge integration, and service.
The nature, level, and/or degree of this evidence must also be reflective of his/her institution’s type/mission.
A nominee in the Rising Star category must be in no more than his/her sixth year of continuous service as a full-time faculty member
and must be in at least his/her third year of continuous faculty service in Virginia. A nominee in this category will be judged in each of
the four aforementioned areas within the context of criterion #1.
A nominee in the TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY category must possess a record of superior accomplishment in the use of innovative
educational/instructional technologies for instruction. This focus on the teaching and learning process must lead to demonstrable student learning
outcomes. The nominee must provide clear and compelling evidence of his/her effectiveness, and emphasize in the documentation examples of
achievements in promoting and enhancing student learning outcomes via the integration and use of technology in his/her instructional activities.
Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education
Category:
Teaching Awards
Nomination Deadline:
Closed - Feb 4, 2013
Sponsor: ODU University College
Description: The Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education was established in 2001 to recognize Old Dominion faculty members who have provided outstanding leadership in strengthening the University’s international mission. The winner is invited to make a presentation at an international recognition event in the spring and receives an award of $1000 and a commemorative plaque at the annual Faculty Awards Dinner.
Criteria: All nominees must have at least three years of continuous service as full or part-time faculty member in any Old Dominion University department or school. The nominee must have demonstrated a sustained commitment to Old Dominion’s internationalization through achievements in one or more of the areas listed: playing a creative role in developing a significant aspect of the University’s international curriculum; playing a lead role in developing an active Old Dominion linkage with an international partner; serving on international advisory bodies or collaborating with international colleagues in significant research and publication; directing a significant externally-funded project to internationalize the Old Dominion experience.
Description:
The Teaching with Technology Award is a means to recognize the excellence of Old Dominion's faculty and their innovative contributions to the quality
of teaching and learning through the application of information technology.
Criteria: The requirements for the Teaching with Technology Award mirrors those of SCHEV requirements for the Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching with
Technology:
A nominee in the TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY category must
possess a record of superior accomplishment in integrating educational/instructional technologies into the student learning process, resulting in
enhanced and demonstrable learning outcomes. The nominee
must
demonstrate clear and compelling evidence of effectiveness and achievements in promoting and enhancing student learning outcomes via the integration
and use of technology in instructional activities.
The award will be presented annually to full-time faculty members who, in the opinion of colleagues, the Chair, the Dean, the University Outstanding
Faculty Awards Committee, the Office of Distance Learning, Office of Computing and Communication Services and the Provost, have advanced the art of
instructional technology in the effective presentation of their courses.
Award funds ($3000 per person, for up to three awards) may be used to purchase computer equipment or software, or for conference travel. The award will
be presented at the annual Faculty Awards and Retirement Dinner.
Description: The designation of university professor had been established in order to recognize faculty members at the university who are outstanding teachers.
Criteria:
Only tenured faculty members will be considered for this honor.
Faculty holding the designation of university professor may not be reappointed
Each nominee shall ordinarily teach a minimum of three courses per year, which shall ordinarily include one undergraduate course
Nominees shall have student ratings above the departmental mean for the average overall effectiveness of the instructor, averaged for all courses per semester
Procedures for Nomination and Selection are available through the Office of Graduate Studies.
Designated faculty members will hold the title permanently, be so identified in university publications, and will receive $2,500 per year discretionary funds to support their professional development for the four years following their appointment. The names of all university professors will be engraved on a plaque to be prominently displayed at the university. The University Professor Award comes with $2,500 for four years (for a total of $10,000) each.
Each nominee shall ordinarily teach a minimum of three undergraduate courses per year for at least the past three years.
Faculty nominated for consideration as University Distinguished Teachers shall have a record of superior accomplishment in teaching. The nominee shall document this record with evidence such as results of student opinion surveys, peer evaluation, statements from former students, and other relevant information.
The nomination packet shall include:
Personal statement by the person nominated describing general teaching philosophy [maximum two pages double spaced].
Documentation of teaching innovations and of a scholarly approach to teaching and learning.
Portfolio Reviews for the last three years are required.
Curriculum vitae with priority given to activities and awards that focus on teaching [maximum two pages].
Faculty member's teaching log listing courses taught in the last three years with number of students, student opinion surveys for the last three years, and grade distributions from the last three years. In addition to the nomination letter, no more than four letters of support with at least two written by the nominee’s former students who have graduated from the University. The other two may come from persons in the community of his or her profession including former students [maximum 12 pages].
Description: Since 1996, Old Dominion University has recognized graduate teaching assistants who have demonstrated exceptional instructional quality. Each year, the University selects two outstanding graduate teaching assistants- one for laboratory instructions and one for classroom instruction.
Graduate Teaching Assistants that receive this award are recognized at the spring faculty recognition dinner, in addition to $1000. All of the college nominees receive recognition certificates.
The outstanding graduate teaching assistants are selected in March. Graduate Teaching Assistants who worked during the previous spring and summer semesters can also be nominated for recognition, in addition to fall semester graduate teaching assistants.
Criteria: The outstanding classroom instructor will be selected on the basis of documented student and faculty evaluations of their performance in a lecture format.
The following information should be included:
A letter of nomination from the GTA’s department chair or mentor
Two written evaluations of their teaching performance by their mentor or supervisor
Compilations of the GTA’s student evaluations for all laboratory sciences taught
Any other supporting materials deemed appropriate by the nominator
“Portfolios” of graded work and course preparations. If examinations are prepared, a written record of faculty mentoring of that aspect of their development should be included.
Description: Since 1996, Old Dominion University has recognized graduate teaching assistants who have demonstrated exceptional instructional quality. Each year, the University selects two outstanding graduate teaching assistants- one for laboratory instructions and one for classroom instruction.
Graduate Teaching Assistants that receive this award are recognized at the spring faculty recognition dinner, in addition to $1000. All of the college nominees receive recognition certificates.
The outstanding graduate teaching assistants are selected in March. Graduate Teaching Assistants who worked during the previous spring and summer semesters can also be nominated for recognition, in addition to fall semester graduate teaching assistants.
Criteria: The outstanding laboratory instructor will be selected on the basis of student evaluations and documented faculty evaluations of their performance in any type of “laboratory”, i.e. non-lecture format instruction.
The following information should be included:
A letter of nomination from the GTA’s department chair or mentor
Two written evaluations of their teaching performance by their mentor or supervisor
Compilations of the GTA’s student evaluations for all laboratory sciences taught
Any other supporting materials deemed appropriate by the nominator
“Portfolios” of materials used in laboratory presentations, for study guides, etc., if appropriate. Please not if these were prepared by the GTA or faculty mentor. If examinations are prepared by the GTA, a written record of faculty mentoring of this aspect of the GTA development should be included.
