Faculty Awards
Submissions for 2024 Have Closed
Deadline to submit nominations was March 15, 2024. Please check back at year end for information about the 2025 Faculty Awards. For planning, the 2024 nomination form is linked at each award's page. Please refer to the forms for eligibility, criteria and supporting documentation details. Each nomination package is to be compiled into a single PDF. Email questions or comments to Kay Brusca at brusca@uark.edu.
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:
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.
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.
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 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.
Outstanding Teaching
Nominees are evaluated based on an outstanding — in creativity and effectiveness — teaching technique, strategy, method or assignment implemented within the past year.
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.
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.