Teaching Awards & Grants
Supporting and celebrating educators who inspire and engage students through innovative and transformative teaching practices
Grants
Innovative Teaching & Learning Awards
facilitate faculty exploring teaching innovations with new tools, approaches, and ideas that enhance teaching and learning
grants for instructors of up to $1500 to support efforts to enhance teaching and learning
provides departments and faculty with opportunities to adopt high-impact learning practices, enhance learning with technology, and integrate active learning pedagogies into their classes
Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities APS Innovative Teaching Awards
awards for faculty who wish to expand their scholarship of teaching and learning by providing innovative teaching and learning experiences for students. These awards should serve as a base or pilot for future grant proposals and can be either interinstitutional ($5,000) or single institution ($3,000).
CALS Awards
Early Career Faculty Teaching Award
recognizes early-career CALS faculty who demonstrate a commitment to quality instruction, show evidence of a creative combination of teaching strategies and generate enthusiasm in students
Robert H. Foote Mid-Career Teaching Award
recognizes mid-career CALS faculty who engage with students using creative and novel techniques, introducing students to cutting edge information in their field
Louis and Edith Edgerton Career Teaching Award
recognizes a meritorious and senior faculty member who has provided outstanding teaching and advising to students across their career
Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Advisor Award
student-nominated award that recognizes excellence in advising by academic advisors of CALS undergraduates
Kathy Druckman Berggren Diversity and Inclusion Award
recognizes members of the CALS faculty or academic staff who have made a significant contribution to enhancing a positive climate for multicultural diversity within their teaching, research and/or extension program
student-nominated award that recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching by CALS faculty
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
recognizes CALS faculty who demonstrate superior teaching at the graduate, undergraduate, or professional level
Cornell Awards
Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards
honor faculty who have a sustained record of commitment to the teaching and mentoring of undergraduate students and to undergraduate education
Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Programs
recognizes teaching excellence at the masters, PhD, DVM, DMA or JD level
Kendall S. Carpenter Advising Award
recognizes the sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service through Diversity
recognizes faculty who have made an outstanding impact in research or creative work, teaching and mentoring, and/or service in outreach in diversity
George D. Levy Engaged Teaching and Research Award
recognizes a faculty member whose community collaborations serve as models for outstanding community-engaged learning in the classroom or through research
Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship
celebrates faculty who involve students in challenging community-engaged learning programs
External Awards
recognize outstanding college professors of agriculture, natural resources, veterinary and human sciences
North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture
several awards for educators that have demonstrated a commitment to teaching in agricultural sciences
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
several awards that recognize educators in the field of landscape architecture
ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award
recognizes engineering or engineering technology educators for excellence in outstanding classroom performance, contributions to the scholarship of teaching, and participation in ASEE Section meetings and local activities
Do you know of a grant or award that should be on this list? Contact cals-cdis [at] cornell.edu