Call for Nominations for Advertising Division 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award

Abstract

The Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication invites nominations for the division’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The award recognizes individual excellence in undergraduate teaching over a sustained period of time. The recipient will receive a $500 award and be recognized at the Advertising Division business meeting at the 2019 AEJMC annual conference in Toronto.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, a nominee must be a member of the Advertising Division and have at least seven years of teaching experience as a full-time faculty member. For this award, “full-time faculty member” is defined as an individual serving in a tenure-track, clinical, instructor, professor of practice, or full-time lecturer position.

Note: Time spent teaching during graduate school or as a visiting professor or adjunct instructor does not count toward the years of eligibility. Years teaching as a full-time faculty member at two or more different institutions should be summed (e.g., two years at University A and three years at University B would count as five years total).

WHO MAY NOMINATE?

Eligible faculty can self-nominate or be nominated by a faculty member or administrator (e.g., department chair or head, dean) who currently works in the same department, college and/or university as the faculty member being nominated.

OVERVIEW OF SELECTION PROCESS

A two-step process is used to determine the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. The first step requires nomination materials, including a nomination letter (or letter of support if self-nomination), nominee statement and current curriculum vita. (See below for additional details.) First-round materials will be reviewed by the division’s Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee. A group of between two and five finalists will be invited to submit additional materials. Second-round materials include a teaching portfolio, statement of teaching philosophy, list of courses and numeric student evaluations for last three years and two letters of support from former students. (Finalists will receive additional details about second-round materials.) The committee will review second-round materials and select the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award winner.

DESCRIPTION OF FIRST-ROUND MATERIALS

Nomination letter. The letter should explain why the nominee should be considered for the award and include examples of how the nominee demonstrates excellence in any or all of the following: subject mastery and competence; classroom management and communication skills; creation of a positive learning environment; dedication to teaching; and assessment. The letter should be no longer than 1,000 words.

Self-nominations. Self-nominations are accepted. In the event of a self-nomination, a letter of support from a full-time faculty member or administrator with at least three years of experience and who is a member in good standing of the Advertising Division is required. The letter of support should explain why the nominee should be considered for the award and the basis for the recommendation (e.g., nature of relationship with nominee, how long letter writer has known nominee, etc.). The letter should be no longer than 1,000 words.

Statement from nominee. The statement should describe the nominee’s teaching philosophy and provide examples of how that philosophy is enacted through in-class activities and/or interactions with students outside of class. The statement should be no longer than three single-spaced pages. Note: Self-nominations must include a statement of teaching philosophy.

Curriculum vita. A current version of the nominee’s curriculum vita should be submitted as part of the first-round materials.

TIMELINE FOR AWARD

First-round materials must be submitted by 11 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on Saturday, December 15, 2018. Materials should be sent as an email attachment or attachments (Microsoft Word document/s or PDF file/s) to committee chair Robin Spring at springro@gvsu.edu. Please use the subject line: AEJMC AD DIV. DISTINGUISHED TEACHER. Please direct any questions to the committee chair.

Invitations to submit second-round materials will be sent on or about January 31, 2019.

Second-round materials must be submitted by 5 p.m. EST on Monday, April 1, 2019.

The winner will be notified on or about May 15, 2019, and announced publicly at the Advertising Division business meeting at the AEJMC annual convention in August.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

The Distinguished Teaching Award is designed to reward excellence in undergraduate teaching displayed over a sustained period of time. While the committee recognizes there is no single item or set of items that demonstrate exemplary teaching, the following list will be used as a guide as the committee reviews each nomination:

Subject mastery and competence. Includes items such as demonstrating a comprehensive command of the subject matter; continuous growth in the field; currency with trends, challenges and controversies in the field.

Classroom management and communication skills. Includes items such as organizing and presenting course material in a coherent manner; implementing effective teaching methods and developing innovative curricular materials; displaying enthusiasm and vitality in the classroom.

Creation of positive learning environment. Includes items such as ability to inspire students to engage in reflective analysis and critical thinking; encouraging intellectual curiosity; demonstrating respect for students; encouraging and promoting diversity and diverse perspectives inside and outside the classroom.

Dedication to teaching. Includes items such as engaging in continuous efforts to evaluate and improve one’s own teaching; developing new courses and/or redesigning existing courses to incorporate new knowledge, methods and/or materials; inspiring and assisting colleagues to increase their teaching effectiveness.

Assessment. Includes items that demonstrate student learning success inside and outside the classroom.

2019 DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE

Robin Spring (Grand Valley State University), committee chair; member Advertising Division executive committee

Mike Devlin (Texas State University); recipient 2018 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award

Padmini Patwardhan (Winthrop University); recipient 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award

Peggy J. Kreshel (University of Georgia); elected representative to selection committee

Jay Newell (Iowa State University); Editor of The Journal of Advertising Education, and recipient 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award