(Last updated: 3/14/13)  

Excellence in Teaching, University Committee on

Contact: Chancellor's Office or Asst. V.C. for Academic and Student Affairs Paul Barnes ( pbarnes@unomaha.edu )

EIT Web Page: http://www.unomaha.edu/aandsaffairs/inside/ceita.php

Governance:

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.

Recipients: List can be found at this web address

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RESOLUTION 4078, 3/13/13: Replacement on Excellence in Teaching Award Committee

BE IT RESOLVED , that Ana Cruz has agreed to replace Cynthia Robinson, who resigned last year and whose term runs through 7/31/14, as the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media representative, on the Excellence in Teaching Award Committee .

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RESOLUTION 4043, 5/9/2012 : University Committees (a-i):

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following be appointed to University Committees as designated:

b. University Committee on Excellence in Teaching

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty members be recommended for service as three-year appointments, from 08/01/12, through 07/31/15, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Of the committee, 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 (08/01/12-07/31/13):

• Jody Neathery-Castro, A&S, (to replace Rosemary Strasser)
• Catherine Co, BA, (to replace Jonna Holland)

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• Julie Pelton, new faculty holding Ph.D. (to replace Ana Cruz) (term: 08/01/12-07/31/13).

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RESOLUTION 4026, 2/8/12 : Replacement for Excellence in Teaching Award Committee

BE IT RESOLVED , that Saundra Shillingstad has agreed to replace Amy Teten, for Spring 2012, as the College of Education representative, on the Excellence in Teaching Award Committee .

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RESOLUTION 3099, 5/11/11: University Committees Resolution (a-j)

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following be appointed to University Committees as designated:

b.      University Committee on Excellence in Teaching

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty members be recommended for service as three-year appointments, from 08/01/11, through 07/31/14, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Of the committee, 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 (08/01/10-07/31/11):

Cynthia Robinson, CFAM, (to replace Paige Toller);
Ann Fruhling, IS&T, (to replace Raj Dasgupta) ;

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Ana Cruz, new faculty holding Ph.D. (to replace Robert Todd) (term: 08/01/10-07/31/11).

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RESOLUTION 3036, 5/12/10 : University-Wide Committees

b. University committee on Excellence in Teaching  

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty members be recommended for service as three-year appointments, from 08/01/10, through 07/31/13, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Of the committee, 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 (08/01/10-07/31/11):

• Amy Teten, ED, (to replace Don Greer)
• Bill Wakefield, PACS, (to replace Pamela Smith)

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• Robert Todd, new faculty holding Ph.D. (to replace Adam Tyma) (term: 08/01/10-07/31/11).

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Resolution 2978, 5/13/09: University-wide Committees

b.      Excellence in Teaching Award, University Committee on

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following faculty members be recommended for service as three-year appointment, from 08/01/09 through 07/31/12, on the University Committee on Excellence in Teaching. (Of the committee, 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 (08/01/09-07/31/10).

• Rosemary Strasser, A&S (to replace Carolyn Gascoigne)
• Jonna Holland, BA (to replace Lynn Harland)

AND

 

• Adam Tyma, new faculty holding Ph.D. (to replace Elizabeth Leader Janssen) (term: 8/1/09-7/31/10=one year)

AND

 

• Paige Toller, CFAM (to finish Teresa Dody's term: 8/1/08-7/31/11).

 

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b. Excellence in Teaching Award, University Committee on

• 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).

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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).

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b. Excellence in Teaching Award, University Committee on

Lynn Harland, CBA (to replace Ziaul Huq)

AND,

John Erickson, new faculty holding PhD.

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c. University Committee on Excellence in Teaching:

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.

AND,

Tracy Bridgeford, new faculty holding PhD (reappoint).

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C. University Committee on Excellence in Teaching

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:

     Richard Duggin, FA, (to replace David Helm)

AND,

      Tracy Bridgeford, - new faculty holding PhD (to replace Carson Holloway).

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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.

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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.