Teaching Awards

The University honors its outstanding teachers with a variety of awards. In addition to awards offered within the graduate divisions and professional schools, there are several University-wide acknowledgements:

The Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the oldest collegiate teaching prizes in the United States, given to three or four faculty members each year.

The Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching recognizing faculty members in the divisions ? for exemplary graduate teaching.

The Provost's Teaching Week, in which faculty selected for their excellence in teaching open their classrooms to their colleagues, providing a structure for observing outstanding teachers in their regular classroom settings and, subsequently, discussing best practices in teaching.