UNO Faculty Senate

Purpose: Be responsible for the selection of the recipients of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Excellence in Teaching Award. Committee shall make its recommendations to the chancellor.

Membership: Six members appointed by the chancellor, and shall include two recipients of the UNO Excellence in Teaching Award (or the Great Teacher Award), one new (first year, if possible) UNO faculty member holding the Ph.D. degree, two faculty to remedy any imbalances of college representation on the committee, and one junior student (to be selected for the following year) with outstanding academic credentials.

Resolutions

Resolution 2919, 5/14/2008: University Committees

b. Excellence in Teaching Award, University Committee on

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty member be recommended for service as three-year appointment, from 08/01/2008 through 07/31/2011, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be ''first year faculty member holding a Ph.D."). These members will serve staggered terms, and their replacements will be appointed to serve terms that would balance term endings, except for the first year faculty member, who serves one year (08/01/2008 - 07/31/2009).

Teresa Dody, CFAM, (to replace Marshall Prisbell)

Raj Dasgupta, IS&T, (to replace Leah Pietron)

AND,

Elizabeth Leader Janssen, new faculty holding PhD, (to replace Rosemary Strasser) (term: one year).

Resolution 2867, 5/09/2007: University Committees

b. Excellence in Teaching, University Committee on

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty member be recommended for service as three-year appointment, from 08/01/2007 through 07/31/2010, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be ''first year faculty member holding a Ph.D.") (* Except for the A&S member who will serve two years to balance term endings.) These members will serve staggered terms, and their replacements will be appointed to serve terms that would balance term endings, except for the first year faculty member, who serves one year (08/01/2007 - 07/31/2008).

Carolyn Gascoigne, A&S, (recipient of the award - 2005) to replace Karen Dwyer) (*term: 08/01/07-07/31/09)
Don Greer, ED, (to replace Phyllis Adcock) (term: 08/01/07-07/31/10)
Pamela Smith, CPACS, (recipient of the award - 1994) (to replace Theresa Barron-McKeagney) (term: 08/01/07-07/31/10

AND,

Rosemary Strasser, new faculty holding PhD, (to replace John Erickson) (term: one year).

Resolution 2829, 5/10/06: University-wide Committees

b. Excellence in Teaching Award, University Committee on

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty member be recommended for service as three-year appointment, from 08/01/2006 through 07/31/2009, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be ''first year faculty member holding a Ph.D.") These members will serve staggered terms, and their replacements will be appointed to serve terms that would balance term endings, except for the first year faculty member, who serves one year (08/01/2006 - 07/31/2007).

Lynn Harland, CBA (to replace Ziaul Huq)

AND,

John Erickson, new faculty holding PhD.

Resolution 2797, 9/14/05 (University Committees):

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty be recommended for service as three-year appointments, from 08/01/2005 through 07/31/2008, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be ''first year faculty member holding a Ph.D.") These members will serve staggered terms, and their replacements will be appointed to serve terms that would balance term endings, except for the first year faculty member, who serves one year.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty be recommended for service as three-year appointments, from 08/01/2004 through 07/31/2007, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be ''first year faculty member holding a Ph.D.") These members will serve staggered terms, and their replacements will be appointed to serve terms that would balance term endings, except for the first year faculty member, who serves one year.

     Theresa Barron-McKeagney, PACS, (to replace Cassia Spohn) (recipient)
      Karen Dwyer, (reappointed)
      Phyllis Adcock, ED, (to replace Jerene Fluckiger).

AND, the following faculty be recommended for service as a one-year appointment from 08/01/04 through 07/31/05, to the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching, to correct an imbalance in term endings:

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty be recommended for service on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be ''first year faculty member holding a Ph.D.") These members will serve staggered terms, and their replacements will be appointed to serve terms that would balance term endings, except for the first year faculty member, who serves one year.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty be recommended for service on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching to serve three-year terms from November 8, 2000, through July 31, 2003. Two members should be recipients of the award and one member should be untenured, if possible. This is also the first time the new position of ‘first year faculty member holding a Ph.D.' is added as charged by the chancellor's Task Force on University Committees (Committee on Committees). Continuing committee members are Andrew Smallwood (A&S, 08/01/97 to 07/31/00) and Philip Secret (PACS, 08/01/98 to 07/31/01) both of whom were appointed by the chancellor prior to this responsibility being turned over to the faculty senate.