Minnesota State Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching

Purpose

The Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence are conferred annually to college and university teaching faculty and university administrative service faculty to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching
The award is intended to recognize the core importance of the teaching mission at our colleges and universities and the foundation of that mission is skillful methods of teaching, attention to student learning, and faculty subject matter expertise. The primary criterion is skill in teaching that is inclusive, innovative, learning-centered, and collaborative. The award reflects the commitment to providing high-quality instruction that prepares college and university students of Minnesota State for their professional, scholarly, and civic lives.

Locally at Riverland, the Excellence in Teaching award is recognized for one teaching faculty member who is chosen as the Board of Trustees Outstanding Educator from nominations from the college and surrounding communities. Our Outstanding Educator is then eligible to be chosen as Educator of the Year from across Minnesota State.

We Welcome Nominations!

Nominations are open to faculty and staff, students, alumni, administration, and community members. Please note that faculty members cannot nominate themselves.

Opening Date: May 2nd

Closing Date: September 14^th at 11:59 pm

Don’t miss your chance to recognize someone special!

Proceed to Nomination Form

Educator Recognition Program: Honoring Excellence in Teaching

Outstanding Educators are faculty identified at a college or university who are exemplary educators, identified through a local committee process, and nominated by the college or university president for selection as an Educator of the Year.
Educators of the Year are faculty chosen from the pool of Outstanding Educators to be honored by the Board of Trustees as representative of teaching excellence across the system.

Overview of Process:

Open nominations are solicited for Outstanding Educators from faculty, students, alumni, administration, and community members.
A local nominations committee will make nominations of finalist candidates to the college president following program guidelines and requirements.
Following award procedures, the college president will identify one teaching faculty member who will be recognized as the Riverland Board of Trustees Outstanding Educator. (The number of Outstanding Educators selected at each institution is allocated at one per 100 instructional faculty FYE.) The college president will then forward this faculty member as our nominee for the Board of Trustees Educator of the Year award.