Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards

Each year, The University of Texas System accepts two nominations from each UT System institution to be considered for the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards. These awards recognize faculty members across the system who deliver the highest quality of instruction through demonstrated excellence in teaching and a promising future of sustained excellence in all aspects of instruction. In April, the Stephen F. Austin State University Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs will submit the names of a maximum of two SFA faculty members for this prestigious award.

To ensure maximum equity among faculty members, one individual can be nominated for approximately every 25 full-time faculty members, including tenured, tenure-track and nontenure-track faculty members. Thus, one nominee will be accepted from the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, two each from the Nelson Rusche College of Business and the Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts, three from the James I. Perkins College of Education, and four each from the College of Liberal and Applied Arts and the College of Sciences and Mathematics. College nominees must meet all eligibility criteria listed on the ROTA website and must have demonstrated excellence in at least five of the following criteria:

• Developing innovations that are responsive to student needs.
• Pursuing effectiveness, innovation and creativity in the classroom, clinic or setting in which teaching and learning take place.
• Demonstrating the use of strategies that actively engage the learner.
• Creating opportunities for experiential learning.
• Using technology effectively.
• Adapting teaching methods to improve teaching and learning.
• Striving to learn and improve one’s own teaching.
• Being a leader in teaching and learning by having a positive impact on their colleagues’ teaching.

The process for selecting our campus nominees for the system-level ROTA is as follows:

• Each college will email the names of its nominees to rota@sfasu.edu no later than Jan. 15.
• Each college nominee will assemble a campus dossier similar to the more extensive dossier required for the system award. Campus dossier requirements will be emailed to nominees.
• Campus dossiers must be submitted by March 1.
• A selection committee composed of faculty and staff from across campus will review the campus dossiers and select two campus nominees no later than April 1.

Campus nominees will assemble their more extensive dossiers for the UT System and submit them by late May.