Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Awards

To recognize exceptional graduate student teaching, the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences offers two annual awards: the Graduate Student Teaching Award and the Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award.


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The Graduate Student Teaching Award recognizes outstanding expertise in all areas of teaching: curriculum development, classroom teaching, student mentoring and assessment. The Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award is for those who have held the role with remarkable distinction, dedication and creativity.


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All Dietrich College graduate students are eligible for nomination. Each department in the college may nominate one graduate student per award. Departments may solicit letters of recommendation for more than one candidate per award, and use these letters to decide which candidate will be the departmental nominee for each award. Students who have been nominated in the past, but who did not receive the award for which they were nominated, may be re-nominated.

The nomination packet should include:

  • A cover letter addressed to the Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Awards Committee that summarizes the individual鈥檚 accomplishments.
  • The nominee鈥檚 projected graduation date.
  • The nominee鈥檚 current CV.
  • Up to three letters of recommendation from faculty who are familiar with the nominee鈥檚 performance in the role of teacher or teaching assistant.
  • Testimonials from undergraduate students.
  • FCE scores (only needed for Teaching Award nominees).
  • Additional materials, such as comments from FCE forms, teaching statements, other measures of teaching effectiveness, problem sets or curricular materials created by the nominee, are also welcomed. Letters from previous nominations as well as letters solicited in connection with other teaching awards may be used.

The award selection committee has developed the following metrics for a baseline framing of nominees. These can be included in other nomination materials and will be ranked by the committee as superior, very good and good.

  • Intellectual coherence
  • Overall impact to the university and college over time
  • Number of students taught
  • Number of courses taught
  • Contributions to pedagogical scholarship
  • Appropriate pedagogy for discipline
  • Student letters / FCEs
  • Resourcefulness and development over time
  • Professionalism Portfolio quality

The award recipients will be chosen by a college-wide committee appointed by the dean.

Nominations should be submitted to the Dietrich College Dean鈥檚 Office by Dec. 1.