Distinguished Teaching Awards
As the UO's highest teaching honor, the distinguished teaching awards are bestowed on a select group of faculty members each year for their excellence in teaching and pedagogy. Nominations come from students, faculty, and staff. The awards recipients are announced in May when the president and provost drop into surprise unsuspecting faculty members in their classrooms.
Distinguished Teaching Professor Program
The new Teaching Professor Program acknowledges the extraordinary contribution of faculty careers focused largely on teaching. Awardees will see their teaching expectations reduced and will receive a stipend, allowing them to pursue significant leadership in teaching projects. The goal of the program is to extend the university-wide reach of exceptional teachers as a model and resource for the UO community.
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Williams Fund
Designed to foster innovation, the Williams Fund provides financial support for initiatives that enhance the quality of the educational experience for undergraduate students at the UO. Tom and Carol Williams wanted to create a resource that could have a revolutionary effect on the way the university addresses undergraduate education.
► Fellows Nominations
► Fellowships Awarded
► Proposal Submissions
► Funded Proposals
Provost Fellows Program
The Provost Fellows Program is one of many Office of the Provost faculty development programs. It provides a significant professional development opportunity for mid-career faculty interested in learning more about academic leadership and contributing to university-level decision making and initiatives.
The program will be paused for the 2024-25 academic year and revisited once a permanent provost is in place.
Book Publication Recognition
Book publication is a distinctive strength at our university in many humanities, social sciences, and professional school departments. This recognition encourages and celebrates UO tenure-track faculty who continue to publish books beyond those included in their file for tenure and promotion to associate professor; and UO career faculty who publish eligible books. Funding may be used for research travel, research materials, publication subvention, permissions, or summer salary.
Graduate Education Excellence Awards
These awards recognize that strong mentorship and academic leadership and coordination are essential components of strong graduate programs. With these awards, the Division of Graduate Studies hopes to reinforce and highlight practices that enhance the quality of graduate education at the University of Oregon.
► Excellence Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship
► Excellence Award for Directors of Graduate Studies
► Excellence Award for Graduate Coordinators
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Other University Honors
Presidential Fellowships in Arts and Humanities
These competitive fellowships offer a $25,000 fund to tenure-track faculty in the creative arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences at UO. The awards will go to highly productive tenure-track faculty working in humanistic areas (a) for scholarly materials, travel, and other research expenses (copy editors, indexers, research assistants, subvention fees, etc.); (b) as summer, sabbatical, or fellowship salary; (c) or to cover the cost of a course release, with departmental approval, during the academic year. The open-purpose funding permits scholars to put the award to its best use depending upon where they are in their progress on a given project; if taken as salary, the $25,000 will include OPE.
UO Excellence in Advising Awards
Each year, the Division of Undergraduate Studies and the All-Campus Advising Association (ACAA) select one outstanding faculty advisor and one outstanding professional advisor. Both receive a $2,000 award, generously provided by The Division of Undergraduate Studies. The recipients who best exhibit the qualities associated with excellent advising will be recognized at an awards brunch. Faculty, students, staff, and officers of administration are welcome to nominate faculty and professional advisors who meet the eligibility requirements.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
Equity, inclusion, and diversity are fundamental values we aspire to as a university community. These values were profoundly reflected in the life and work of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Each year, the Division of Equity and Inclusion celebrates university faculty and staff whose contributions to the campus and local communities exemplify ideals espoused by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remote Teaching Awards
The Remote Teaching Awards recognize faculty who transformed traditional, face-to-face courses into remote teaching environments while maintaining the qualities we value at the UO: professional, inclusive, engaged and research-informed teaching. Each recipient is awarded a $1,000 stipend.
The Wayne T. Westling Award
The Wayne T. Westling Award for University Leadership and Service was created by the UO Senate in 2001. The award is named in honor of Wayne T. Westling, Professor of Law at the University of Oregon from 1979-2001, who was recognized across campus for his unswerving and selfless commitment to faculty governance at the University of Oregon. It is given to a faculty or staff member for their outstanding and long-term leadership and service to the university. The Senate’s Committee on Committees is responsible for establishing the selection criteria, soliciting nominations, screening candidates, and recommending the recipient to the Senate for its approval. The recipient is selected when the Senate votes on the recommendation of the Committee on Committees.
Faculty Excellence in Universal Design
The Accessible Education Center awards faculty members who display excellence in universal design. This involves providing flexibility in the ways in which information is presented, how students may demonstrate knowledge or skills, and the ways in which students are able to engage in a course. Universal Design in Learning (UDL) strives to ensure equity and access for all learners.
CURE Faculty Research Mentor Awards
The Faculty Research Mentor Award recognizes UO faculty members for their exceptional mentoring of undergraduate students in research and experiential learning. The awards are open to all full-time and part-time research and instructional faculty employed by the University of Oregon. Two faculty members receive a $2,500 award every year, with nominations welcomed from current students, alumni, faculty, and administrators.