The Richard B. Russell Foundation has established the Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Awards at The University of Georgia. The awards are named to honor Georgian and university alumnus Richard B. Russell who had a love for new knowledge and appreciation of our nation's youth.
PURPOSE
The purpose is to recognize excellence in undergraduate instruction at The University of Georgia by faculty members in their early academic careers. There will be three awards made each year. Awardees will receive a $5,000 cash award from the Richard B. Russell Foundation.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility for the award will be limited to tenure•track faculty engaged in undergraduate instruction, who have been at the University a minimum of three years at the time of the actual award, and who have been in a tenure track position for a total of no more than ten years. That is, nominees must be in no later than their tenth tenure track year totaled across all academic institutions served. Past awardees are not eligible for nomination.
PROCESS
Each college may forward to the Vice President for Academic Affairs one nomination per year with the exceptions that the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences may forward six nominations per year and the Colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Business, Education, and Veterinary Medicine may each forward two nominations per year. No more than one award will be made in a single year to faculty nominated from a single department. The mechanism by which nominees are selected within colleges will be determined by the respective deans but it should include a review by a designated faculty committee. In addition, any department wishing to make a nomination for consideration by the College should have its own internally designated committee to advise the department head in selection of the faculty member to be nominated.
The dean or department head will submit to the selection committee nine (9) copies of the dossier which will include a written statement addressing the nominee's teaching excellence, the resume, and an appendix of supporting documentation. The appendix typically will include a summary of student classroom evaluations, supporting letters from colleagues and students, and other pertinent information. The dossier should be limited to twenty-five (25) pages with a type face no smaller than 11 point font size.
SELECTION
A committee comprised of five senior faculty members, two undergraduate students, and a representative from the Russell Foundation will make the selections.
Nine (9) copies of each nominee's dossier will be due in the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost by December 7, 2007.
The awards will be presented at the annual campus faculty recognition banquet in the spring.
Questions regarding this program should be directed to:
Susan Landrum
Executive Assistant to the Provost
Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
105 Administration Building
Phone: 542-0415
Revised 10/02
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