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• Impact on graduate ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs.
• Excellence in the supervision of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø research or professional practice (e.g., supervision of teachers-in-training, mentoring graduate ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs in laboratories, research projects, or independent studies).
• Excellence in graduate classroom instruction.
• Other contributions to improved instruction, including influence on the graduate curriculum.

Graduate ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs, faculty, administrators, or alumni may submit nominations to the department chair. Upon receipt of a nomination, the department chair will invite the nominee to stand for the award. If the nominee chooses to stand for the award, the department chair will compile the following information for an application packet.

Adherence to the following order of presentation is requested in order to assist the work of the selection committee.

• A cover page that is signed by the nominator and includes the nominee’s name, rank, department, college, and years of service to ºÚÁÏÉçÇø.
• A narrative statement of nomination presenting the case for the nominee. This document should describe briefly the relevant data on courses taught, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø course evaluation results, comments of departmental colleagues, and other relevant information. This statement should comment on the importance of the nominee’s courses to the instructional program of the unit and on the nominee’s overall impact on past and present graduate ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs.
• A table summarizing all courses taught by the nominee within the last four years showing year and semester, course number, enrollment, and level – undergraduate, graduate, or mixed. A key should be included to indicate the course title for each course number listed on the table. This should not exceed one page. Include course evaluation data and other indicators of effective classroom teaching.
• Indicators of effective instruction and mentoring outside of the classroom, such as graduate-authored publications, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø conference presentations, exhibitions and performances, mentoring of theses, dissertations, and other capstone projects, and professional placement of graduate degree recipients.
• A self-report on teaching goals, methods, and philosophy, not to exceed two pages.
• No more than four letters of support from graduate ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs and alumni. All graduate ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs and alumni providing letters of support should state explicitly in their letters how the nominee impacted their graduate training and professional development.

Once the nominations have been collected, the department chairperson should submit a PDF of all materials to gradschool@MiamiOH.edu.

A committee of the Graduate Council will oversee the selection process. If you have questions or would like more information, contact Graduate School at gradschool@MiamiOH.edu.