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Richard S. Howe Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award


Questions? Email facultyawards@utsa.edu.

ONE AWARD FOR TENURED/TENURE-TRACK/FIXED-TERM TRACK FACULTY


Purpose of Award

In recognition of former UTSA College of Engineering professor and mentor Richard “Dick” Howe and with support from community leader and philanthropist Edith McAllister, this award recognizes UTSA tenured, tenure-track and fixed-term-track professors for developing signature learning experiences for undergraduates.

Signature undergraduate experiences include creative applied or experiential learning beyond the traditional classroom environment.


Eligibility

Nominees for the Howe Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award must be full-time faculty members with at least three years of service at UTSA and may be either tenured/tenure-track or fixed-term-track faculty. Recipients of the award are eligible for re-nomination after a five-year period, but are not eligible for nomination the year immediately following their previous win.


Timeline 2023-2024

January 29, 2024: Deadline for deans' offices to upload nominations to SharePoint (college faculty award points of contact will receive a link)

February 2024: Award selection committees review nominations and determine recipients

April 2024: Award recipients are formally recognized at the University Excellence Awards Ceremony 


Criteria

The selection committee will consider the following criteria in selecting winners:

  • Evidence of leadership of a signature undergraduate experience that include creative, applied, and/or experiential learning beyond the traditional classroom environment
  • Degree to which the instructor has demonstrated innovation and rigor in design of the experience for undergraduates
  • Evidence that students responded in positive ways to the nominee’s instruction

Nomination Materials

A selection committee composed of faculty will review nomination packets. The nomination packet for this award will consist of only the following, assembled into a single PDF file in the order indicated:

  1. Completed award nomination form
  2. Nomination letter from peer faculty colleague, department chair, or college leader
  3. Self-statement of teaching philosophy (2-page max)
  4. Course evaluations (2 courses max)
  5. Nomination letters from students (2 max)
  6. Recent course syllabi (2 courses max)
  7. CV of nominee

Optional:

  • Peer observations of teaching (2 max)

No additional materials should be submitted.

Each dean’s office should upload completed nomination packets by the deadline.

Each college may submit a maximum number of three nominees (1 Tenured, 1 Tenure-Track, 1 Fixed-Term Track).

SEE TABLE BELOW

College Maximum Number of Nominees
CEID 3
ACOB 3
COEHD 3
COLFA 3
COS 3
HCaP 3
University College 3
Honors College 3

Past Recipients

2023

Mark Leung, professor, Department of Management Science and Statistics
Robert Hard, professor, Department of Anthropology

2022

M. Kathryn Brown, Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor, Department of Anthropology

2021

Jennifer Beavers, associate professor, Department of Music

2020

Gina Amatangelo, lecturer II, Department of Public Administration
Sue Ann Pemberton-Haugh, assistant professor in practice, Department of Architecture

2019

Jill Fleuriet, associate professor, Department of Anthropology
John Drew Stephen, associate professor, Department of Music

2018

Teja Guda, assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Matthias Hofferberth, associate professor, Department of Political Science & Geography

 

2017

Matthew W. McCarter, associate professor, Department of Management
Shelley E. Roff, associate professor, Department of Architecture

2016

Bridget Drinka, professor, Department of English
Jamie Newsome, assistant professor, Department of Criminal Justice

2015

James Johnson, senior lecturer, Mechanical Engineering

2014

Kolleen Guy, associate professor, Department of History
Jason Yaeger, professor, Department of Anthropology

2013

Donovan Fogt, associate professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology
Anita Leffel, senior lecturer, Department of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management
Ronald Sweet, lecturer II, Department of Finance

2011

Lucila Ek, associate professor, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Mary McNaughton-Cassill, associate professor, Department of Psychology
Richard Jones, professor, Department of Political Science and Geography
Robert Lengel, associate professor, Department of Management

2010

Cory Hallam, senior lecturer, Department of Information Systems
Lisa Montoya, senior lecturer, Department of Economics
Valerie Sponsel, associate professor, Department of Biology