Recognition For Excellent Teaching

Excellence in Instruction Awards: The University of Illinois offers several campus level awards in recognition of excellence in undergraduate education, graduate and professional teaching, extramural teaching, advising, and research. While only faculty and/or academic staff are eligible for many of the awards, the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is open to teaching assistants.  Winners receive a monetary reward and are honored at the Annual University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Instructional Awards Banquet.  These awards are provided by the Office of the Provost.  More information on the various awards can be found at: http://www.provost.uiuc.edu/departments/awards/inst.html.

Other teaching awards:  In addition to the all-campus awards, many departments and colleges give annual awards to their best instructors. These awards are often funded by organizations who hire UIUC graduates or are given in memory of former students or faculty members. The recipients of such awards are usually honored at the Annual University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Instructional Awards Banquet as well as departmental events.

A List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students:  A List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students is published by the Center for Teaching Excellence. This list is based on the previous semester's student Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) ratings on the first two general ICES items, "Rate the Instructor's Overall Teaching Effectiveness" and "Rate the Overall Quality of this Course." To be included in the list, instructors must meet the following criteria on ICES item #1 and #2: 

Instructors have to give permission before their student ratings can be considered for inclusion on the List. Instructors do so by completing the release option of Box 7 on the ICES request form.  If an instructor teaches more than one course during a semester, only one section's mean needs to be high enough to be on the list. Outstanding ratings are designated by an asterisk preceding each name and indicate that the instructor is among the top 10%. The list appears in the Daily Illini, the student newspapers, early in the semester following the one in which the ratings were collected.  Previous Lists of Teachers Ranked as Excellent are available on the web.