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March 3, 2003 Volume 27, Issue 26 |
The university's Instructional Improvement Committee is seeking nominations for the U.S. Professors of the Year program by March 21.
The program to recognize outstanding professors is sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
National winners are named each year in four categories based on institutional size and type. One State Professor of the Year also is named from each state, and may come from any size or type institution of higher education. Four Mississippi State faculty members have been named Mississippi's Professor of the Year during the past seven years.
A university may nominate up to three faculty members for 2003 Professors of the Year honors. They must teach at the undergraduate level and must have taught during at least one semester of the 2002-2003 academic year. They may be of any rank and may teach full time or part time.
The Instructional Improvement Committee will solicit nominations, gather supporting data and select up to three nominees for the honor. To recommend a nominee, submit by March 21 a one-page statement summarizing the faculty member's education, teaching experience, other teaching awards, publications, service, and other significant contributions to Dr. Taha Mzoughi, Chair, Instructional Improvement, Mail Stop 9538, or e-mail mzoughi@ra.msstate.edu.
The nominees and their nominators will be contacted by the committee after March 21 and asked to provide additional supporting materials, which must be mailed to CASE or submitted online by April 25. CASE will not accept self-nominations or nominations by students.
A copy of the "2003 Call for Entries" brochure, which includes a more complete description of the program, its rules and regulations, and nomination procedures, is available online at http://www.case.org/poy/PDF/2003USPOYCFE.pdf.