Excellence in Teaching Award

Each year the Teaching Award Subcommittee of the Penn State York Campus Senate seeks nominations of faculty for the James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching.

This award is given annually to recognize any aspect of excellent instruction (lectures, demonstrations, classroom activities, handling of discussions, individual attention, laboratory instruction, etc.) that contributes to the academic quality of the Penn State York campus. The purpose of the award is not to identify the most popular faculty member but, rather, to recognize excellence in instruction.

All faculty are eligible to be nominated except for recipients of the award in the past four years: Ali Kara and Walter Arnold (2016), and Orsay Kucukemiroglu and Eugene Ellis (2017), Jessica Petko and James Miller (2018), and Nicole Muscanell and Janet McNally (2019).

Two awards will be given: one to a full-time faculty member and one to a part-time faculty member. Do not worry if you are unsure whether a faculty member is full-time or part-time – the Teaching Award Committee will divide the nominations accordingly.

This nomination is for faculty who teach during the fall 2019 semester. A second round of nominations will open in February of 2020.

Nominations should be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 13, 2019.

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