Distinguished Teaching Award

A portrait picture of Whitney DeCamp

Whitney DeCamp

Portrait of Timothy Palmer

Timothy Palmer

Professional portrait of Dee Sherwood

Dee Sherwood

Each year 澳门六合彩官网直播 recognizes outstanding teaching by awarding one or more Distinguished Teaching Awards. Outstanding teaching is not fixed in form or venue and is not easily assessed. Whether instruction takes place in lecture courses, seminars, or laboratories or whether it is pitched at introductory or advanced levels, exceptional pedagogy is marked by the active, critical role of the instructor and mentor whose demanding presence fosters critical thinking and inspires students to engage the quest for knowledge as a value in itself and as a craft.

Initiated in 2006, the Distinguished Teaching Award is the highest honor given by the University to recognize faculty members for their teaching work. A similar honors program, the 澳门六合彩官网直播 Alumni Association Teaching Excellence program, ran at the University between 1966 and 2001 and honored 131 faculty members during that time.

Contact Tonya Dean or email: faculty-development@wmich.edu with questions, comments, or concerns regarding the Distinguished Teaching Award.

 

Nomination Procedure

The selection committee invites members of the University community to write a letter of nomination for a faculty member who should be considered for this award.

Award winners will be selected based on the detailed information provided in nomination letters. For that reason, letters should make a strong argument and include specific details. Please tell describe your relationship to the instructor, describe first-hand knowledge of the instructor's work with students inside and outside the classroom, and explain why you see this work as distinguished. All letters are confidential and are filed for consideration in subsequent years.

Nominations are due Tuesday, April 1, 2025 for the 2025-26 Distinguished Teaching Award. Nominations must be submitted electronically through the webform (right).

Nomination Letter

In the nomination letter, describe in your own words, why you feel this particular faculty member should receive the award. Be as specific as possible about the criteria you are using to measure distinguished teaching. The selection committee would like to know exactly why you see this teacher as deserving of this high honor.

  • 2024鈥擶hitney DeCamp, Timothy Palmer, Dee Sherwood
  • 2023鈥擠avid W. Rudge
  • 2022鈥擜nn Veeck
  • 2021鈥擩ames Eckert, Brian Gogan
  • 2020鈥擠ue to the conditions imposed by COVID-19 no nominations were accepted.
  • 2019鈥擬atthew Mingus, Leah Omilion-Hodges
  • 2018鈥擬ichael Braun, Scott Cowan, Scott Slawinski
  • 2017鈥擜riel Anderson, Louann Bierlein Palmer, Gwen Tarbox
  • 2016鈥擩ennifer Machiorlatti, Lisa Paulius
  • 2015鈥擜llison Downey, Michael Nassaney
  • 2014鈥擲ue Ellen Christian, Autumn Edwards
  • 2013鈥擧olly J. Nibert, Paul R. Solomon, Sarah E. Summy
  • 2012鈥擩on R. Adams, Richard Malott
  • 2011鈥擠onald F. Cooney, Karen M. Lancendorfer, Maureen Mickus
  • 2010鈥擥race C. Tiffany, Philip G. Walcott, Stephen W. Wolfinbarger
  • 2009鈥擟had Edwards, Peter E. Parker
  • 2008鈥擬ary Z. Anderson
  • 2007鈥擱ichard Gershon, Trent Kynaston, Jennifer Palthe
  • 2006鈥擨rma M. Lopez, Suhashni "Sushi" Datta-Sandhu

 

澳门六合彩官网直播 Alumni Association Teaching Excellence recipients

  • 2001鈥擬ary L. Dawson, Carolyn J. Harris
  • 2000鈥擜lyce M. Dickinson, Alexander J. Enyedi
  • 1999鈥擱onald B. Chase, Frank M. Gambino
  • 1998鈥擡. Thomas Lawson, Greg Roehrick
  • 1997鈥擩orge M. Febles, Katherine Joslin
  • 1996鈥擸ousef Alavi, Wendy L. Cornish
  • 1995鈥擡lwood Ehrle, Robert Griffin
  • 1994鈥擩oseph Buckley, Bob White
  • 1993鈥擠avid Karsten, Edward Mayo, Cecil McIntire
  • 1992鈥擲usan Caringella-MacDonald, Richard Cooper, Lyda Stillwell
  • 1991鈥擟onstantine Gianakaris, Gerald Hardie, Harold Ray
  • 1990鈥擜rnold Johnston, Richard Keaveny
  • 1989鈥擜lan Brown, Robert Felkel, Leo Stevenson
  • 1988鈥擩ames Burns, Zahir Quraeshi, Arthur White
  • 1987鈥擬ax Benne, Gary Chartrand, Meshulam Groper
  • 1986鈥擩ohn Fisher, Gilbert Hutchings, Roy Olton, Shirley Scott
  • 1985鈥擝etty Deshler, Alonzo Hannaford, Alan Isaak, Larry Oppliger, Ernest Stech
  • 1984鈥擱aymond Alie, Clara Gamble, Jack Michael, Steven Rhodes, David Rozelle
  • 1983鈥擬ary Ann Bush, Elizabeth Giedeman, Gilda Greenberg, A.D. Issa, Uldis Smidchens
  • 1982鈥擱alph Chandler, M. Joanne Mohr, Richard Pippen, Visho Sharma, Kathleen Sinning
  • 1981鈥擱onald Kramer, Andrew Powell, George Robeck, Nancy Steinhaus, Roger Wallace
  • 1980鈥擫owell Crow, Jack Humbert, Louis Junker, Phyllis Rappeport, Archie Watson
  • 1979鈥擲hirley Bach, Thomas Deckard, Linda Delene, Oscar Horst, Robert Neubig
  • 1978鈥擳homas Carey, Stanley Derby, Dale King, Charles Smith, Michael Swords
  • 1977鈥擧arold Bate, Sherwood Cordier, Harry Hefner
  • 1976鈥擹ane Cannon, Martin Cohen, Cameron Lambe, Fred Orlofsky, Shirley VanHoeven
  • 1975鈥擶ade Adams, Lee Baker, Paul Friday, Gale Newell, David Rozelle
  • 1974鈥擳homas Gossman, Paul Maier, Lurette McCray, George Stegman, Jess Walker
  • 1973鈥擫ewis Carlson, Raymond Deur, James Daniels, Charles Houston, Mary Lous Stewart
  • 1972鈥擥ene Booker, Edward Heinig, Herb Jones, Alice Lewis, Dorothy McGinnis, Leo VanderBeek
  • 1971鈥擱obert Barstow, Dorothy Bladt, William Buys, James Casey, Jean Malmstrom, Lewis Walker
  • 1970鈥擠onald Bouma, Jean Friedel, Darrell Jones, Richard Pippen, Rudolf Siebert, Dean Tyndall
  • 1969鈥擟lara Chiara, Edwin Grossnickle, Howard Mowen
  • 1968鈥擶illis Dunbar, Ken Macrorie, Herman Rothfuss
  • 1967鈥擠avid Adams, Charles Brown, Margaret Macmillan
  • 1966鈥擶illiam Morrison