Goal: Revise the criteria of teaching and learning awards to foster recognition of teaching and learning as a scholarly practice.

Supports Strategic Priority 1:
Elevate the value of teaching and learning as a scholarly practice and a core pillar of the institution by defining, fostering and recognizing teaching excellence and educational leadership.

Memorial University's teaching recognition process will soon be strengthened with revised criteria for the President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

In the winter 2023 semester, the President's Advisory Team approved a new process for identifying and supporting institutional nominations for teaching awards, including the creation of a Teaching Awards Committee (TAC). The core responsibilities of this committee are to select nominees for external teaching awards and adjudicate the three internal President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

As part of their work, in the winter 2024 semester the TAC will be reviewing the terms of reference for these awards to ensure the criteria reflect current standards and institutional priorities. A priority is to introduce new criteria that will address Equity, Diversty, Inclusivity and Anti-Racist (EDI-AR) principles and practices. Revisions will also include consideration of the University's new definitions for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), teaching excellence and educational leadership.

Once completed, the new criteria for the President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching will help to position our faculty members and instructors to be better recognized for the important progress they are making in teaching and learning at Memorial.