For the third year, the Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching will be awarded to faculty who are outstanding teachers in WSU’s University Common Requirements (UCORE) program.
The award is named in honor of retired faculty member Dick Law, who served as WSU’s director of General Education from 1990 until his retirement in 2009. The Law Award values the important role played by general education faculty across the university in helping undergraduates attain WSU Learning Goals and Outcomes, especially outside their major area of study.
Award recipients are educators who inspire curiosity and understanding of an area of study and whose classes encourage development of the lifelong learning skills of integrating and synthesizing concepts to solve real problems. Past winners include inaugural recipient Theresa Jordan (History) in 2013, and Clif Stratton (History) and Richard Zack (Entomology) in 2014.
It’s now time to apply or nominate someone for the 2015 award!
ELIGIBILITY: All instructors of record (instructors and clinical faculty plus tenure-track faculty) whose teaching has included at least one UCORE class annually for the past three years
INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS: Visit the website at http://vpue.wsu.edu/LawAward-UndergraduateTeaching/
DEADLINE: Completed applications/nomination packages are due by 5 p.m. Wed., March 25, 2015
SUBMISSIONS: All materials must be sent to jmholt@wsu.edu
QUESTIONS: Emails should be sent to Karen Weathermon, chair of the award review committee, at kweathermon@wsu.edu , or Jeannie Holt, in charge of Law Award materials, at jmholt@wsu.edu .
RECOGNITION: The recipient(s) of the award will be recognized at the spring Office of Undergraduate Education awards ceremony in April.
