Faculty Awards

The Faculty Award winners for 2023-2024 (from top and from left) Hilary Bowling, Kit Kacirek and Michele Kilmer; middle: Thomas Kippenbrock, Wen-Juo Lo and Kevin Murach; bottom: Craig Schmitt, Brent T. Williams and Nicholas Greene.

The College of Education and Health Professions honors faculty members each year for their teaching, research and service to the college and the University of Arkansas. The College Council manages the awards. Announcement about the 2023-24 winners. The awards include:

Faculty Career

This award recognizes a faculty member with a long-standing record of outstanding performance based on the impact made on the university and national recognition in their discipline.

George Denny STAR

This award recognizes a faculty member for achieving balance by exhibiting outstanding performance during the past year in service, teaching, mentoring/advising AND research.

Rising STAR

This award recognizes and rewards a new and junior faculty member for outstanding performance in at least two of these areas: research, teaching, service and mentoring/advising.

Impactful Scholarship

This award recognizes a faculty member for the single most important research endeavor completed within a two-year period of the current term. This award prior to 2023 was titled "Significant Research.”

Outstanding Teaching

Nominees are evaluated based on an outstanding — in creativity and effectiveness — teaching technique, strategy, method or assignment implemented within the past year.

Outstanding Mentoring and Advising

Nominees are evaluated based on their accomplishments for mentoring/advising students within the past year in their professional development and in their degree seeking, course progression or specialty selection.

Superior Service

Nominees are evaluated based on a balance of their accomplishments for service within the past year to the college and university, the profession and field, and to the community.

Belonging and Equity Excellence

This award recognizes and rewards a faculty member for exhibiting outstanding performance related to belonging and equity among the duties of service, teaching, mentoring/advising or research/scholarly work.