Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to nominate a faculty member (full-time or part-time) or librarian for the 2019-2020 University of Hawai‘i Teaching Excellence Awards. The nomination form can be found here: https://forms.gle/pFpaczAYp8oerWqg8.
This year you can make nominations in two awards categories: The Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching, and the Lecturer Excellence in Teaching Award.
The Regents’ Medal for Excellence is based on student, faculty, and staff input. Each year the UH Board of Regents recognizes faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students. The recipients receive a cash award and, in the Fall of 2020, the recipient will receive an engraved Board of Regents medal.
UH West Oʻahu winners – Board of Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching:
2019 Jennifer Byrnes
2018 Jon Magnussen
2016 Michael Furuto
2015 Katie Landgraf
2014 Richard Jones
2012 Linda Furuto
2011 Garyn Tsuru
2010 Frank Kudo
2003 David Alethea
1999 Gary Helfand
1995 Louis Herman
1987 Ross Prizzia
1983 Ekkehard Stiller
1982 Roland Stiller
1981 Linda Nishigaya
1980 Barbara Newton
The newly established Lecturer Excellence in Teaching Award was created in 2019. The inaugural winner was Steven Hanneman. Nominate a lecturer today.
You may nominate more than one person but use a separate form for each nominee and do not nominate the same person more than once. Nomination deadline is Feb. 21, 2020.
The biennial Frances Davis Award (not available this year) recognizes dedication and demonstrated excellence as teachers of undergraduate students. The late Frances Davis taught mathematics at Leeward Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for 19 years.
UH West Oʻahu winners – Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:
2019 Kamuela Yong
2017 Monica LaBriola
2011 Linda Furuto
2009 Stefanie Wilson
2004 Michael Hallstone
Questions? Feel free to contact Serina Makaiwa, Secretary to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, at 689-2306 or email tawards@hawaii.edu.