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Departmental Teaching Excellence Award

UIC’s Award for Collective Teaching Excellence


The Departmental Teaching Excellence Award rewards UIC academic units that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching and have documented instructional excellence. Unlike other UIC programs that recognize the achievements of individual faculty, this award recognizes the achievement of the entire department.

Quick Facts

  1. Applications are due by 4:30 P.M., Friday, April 20, 2012.
  2. Open to all UIC units with a teaching mission (departments, programs, schools, and colleges).
  3. Currently offers one (1) $20,000 award (non-recurring funds).
  4. Past DTEA recipients include Chemistry and Occupational Therapy (2000-2001), Art History and the College of Pharmacy (2003-2004), Psychology (2004-2005), Internal Medicine-Peoria, the First-Year Writing Program and Physics (2005-2006), Department of Movement Science (now Kinesiology & Human Nutrition) and Political Science (2006-2007), Germanic Studies and Nursing (2008-2009) and Computer Science (2009-2010). No award was given during 2010-2011.
  5. Information on how to apply, application content, and selection criteria are included in the program guidelines.