FACULTY AWARD

THE 2011 PRESIDENTIAL EXEMPLARY MULTICULTURAL

TEACHING AWARDS

The UofL Diversity Programming Committee of CODRE and the Vice Provost for Diversity & International Affairs encourages students, faculty, academic departments, administrators, alumni, and trustees, to nominate members of the University teaching staff for this award.  Nominees must have demonstrated excellence in their teaching and scholarship through the utilization of teaching styles, culturally pluralistic and socially constructed ideals and course content and processed incorporating multicultural and global perspectives.

GUIDELINES

Selection criteria for the award reflect the diversity of academic disciplines, knowledge bases, scholarship and research found in urban, doctorate-granting institutions of higher education.

Diverse types of student assessment are utilized to meet the diverse needs of students.

A nominee should regularly utilize collaborative learning strategies, portfolios, case studies, field work, charts and graphics, films/videos, journals, literary narratives, performance arts, scientific exercises or other tools, and teaching strategies and practices to empower learning styles of all students from diverse global perspectives, language constructions and disabilities.

The award recognizes multicultural education and teaching, distinguishing itself from International Education and teaching, i.e. supports active and reflective learning, practices inclusion, values human diversity and cultural pluralism while recognizing that there is no one multicultural model.

ELIGIBILITY

All University of Louisville faculty, full and part-time, are eligible for nomination. Self-nomination is not permitted. Previous nominees will not be eligible unless re-nominated for the subsequent academic year. Previous Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching award recipients will not be eligible.

NOMINATIONS

Nominations will be accepted from any member of the University community (students, faculty and academic departments, staff, administrators, alumni and trustees).

Nominations shall include:

·         Nomination Form

 ·        Nominator’s Statement outlining the characteristics and qualifications of the Nominee that exemplify education that is multicultural

 ·        Nominee’s Form and Statement which includes how one models multicultural teaching in and out of the classroom, and any supporting documentation, i.e. syllabus, etc.

PROCEDURE

The Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award selection committee will review all nominations and select the honorees.  The Presidential Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award will be announced at the 2011 Celebration of Faculty Excellence.

DEADLINE for submission of nominations for the 2011 awards is   February 21, 2011. 

DEADLINE for submission of nominee’s form and statement for the 2011 award is March 11, 2011.