Dear COEHD Faculty, The U. T. System is seeking nominations for the 2015 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. Per Pedro Reyes, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, "The awards will recognize faculty who deliver the highest quality of undergraduate instruction, demonstrate their commitment to teaching, and have a history and promising future of sustained excellence with undergraduate teaching." Tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track award recipients will receive $25,000 each. The University of Texas at San Antonio will submit the following nominees for consideration of the award: 8 tenured, 3 tenure-track, and 3 non-tenure-track/adjunct instructors for consideration for the awards. Therefore, each college will submit a maximum of the following numbers of nominees: Tenured Nominees Tenure-Track Nominees * Non-Tenure Track/Adjunct * 2 1 1 * Nominees must have at least three years teaching experience at the university level. The nomination of strong candidates who may already have received teaching awards or teaching award nominations is encouraged. Below you will find the COEHD timeline for the submission/review process. As you can see, the timeframe is very tight and the awards are quite large. Therefore, it is important that we adhere to the timeline. The nomination process will be conducted in two phases: Phase I: 1) Nomination packets should be submitted to Liliana Gutierrez (liliana.gutierrez@utsa.edu<mailto:liliana.gutierrez@utsa.edu>) in the COEHD-Office of the Dean no later than Monday, December 1, 2014. All nomination packets must contain the following materials for Phase I review: 1. A completed application form (attached), 2. A CV that emphasizes teaching accomplishments (maximum: 15 pages) and 3. Information regarding how to compose a quality teaching philosophy statement can be found online at http://lib.utsa.edu/services/faculty/teaching-learning-services/teaching-... (click on Teaching Philosophy Development). 2) Each college will identify their nominees and email their names to Dr. Nancy Martin. Phase II: The UTSA Award Selection Committee will determine the University's cohort of nominees. These 14 UTSA candidates will develop a full e-portfolio that will be submitted for consideration at the U.T. System level. To make all the candidates more competitive, Teaching and Learning Services in the Faculty Center will provide resources on teaching portfolios and teaching philosophy statements as well as opportunities for classroom observations and portfolio reviews. If the need for further information should arise, please consult the Faculty Awards web site at www.utsa.edu/facultyawards<http://www.utsa.edu/facultyawards> (click on Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards) or contact either Dr. Nancy Martin (nancy.martin@utsa.edu<mailto:nancy.martin@utsa.edu>; X 5191) or Dr. Lucretia Fraga (lucretia.fraga@utsa.edu<mailto:lucretia.fraga@utsa.edu>; X 6685) Again, if you are interested in applying for these awards, complete nomination packets should be submitted to Liliana Gutierrez (liliana.gutierrez@utsa.edu<mailto:liliana.gutierrez@utsa.edu>) in the COEHD-Office of the Dean, by Monday, December 1, 2014. -- [cid:image001.gif@01CA7A72.2C633500] Liliana Gutierrez, M.Ed. Administrative Manager COEHD- Office of the Dean The University of Texas at San Antonio MB 3.304 (210) 458-5200 (210) 458-4487 Fax