Promising Professors Awards Panel & Workshop
New Faculty & Graduate Student Teaching Competition
AEJMC Denver 2010
The AEJMC Mass Communication & Society Division and Graduate Education Interest Group will honor our best and brightest teachers during the annual Promising Professors Awards Panel & Workshop at the national conference in Denver.
Eligibility: Faculty who have taught no more than five years full-time and graduate students who have primary responsibility for teaching at least one course. All entrants must be members of the Mass Communication & Society Division. If you’re not a division member, contact AEJMC at www.aejmc.org to join.
Awards: In addition to receiving a cash award, winners will be required to attend the Promising Professors Workshop and Breakfast at the AEJMC national convention in Denver on Friday, August 6 from 5:15-6:45 p.m.
The Workshop: There is no better way to kick off a new school year than by thinking about teaching and learning in new ways. Promising Professors competition winners and this year’s Distinguished Educator will share what has brought them success in the classroom.
How to enter: Please send three hard copies – not e-mail attachments – of each of the following (please CLEARLY indicate whether you are a current faculty member or a graduate student who is teaching at least one course):
- Current vita
- Letter of support from your department chair or dean
- Brief statement explaining what makes your teaching unique and your assessment of your strengths and weaknesses as an instructor
- At least two syllabi from classes you have taught within the past two years (Graduate students may send only one)
- At least two examples of assignments used in those classes
- Other materials that demonstrate teaching creativity, instructional development and responsiveness to student needs
Deadline: Entry materials must be received no later than Friday, April 9, 2010
Send all materials to: Frank Dardis, MCS Teaching Chair; College of Communications; Penn State University; 107 Carnegie Building; University Park, PA 16802-5100. All entries will be acknowledged but not returned. Winners will be notified no later than May 17, 2010.
Contact: Frank Dardis (E: fdardis@psu.edu T:814-863-7993).