Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award
We honor our faculty who provides outstanding graduate teaching
The Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award honors outstanding graduate teaching, which includes: commitment to academic excellence; attention to individual student needs, interests, and development; excellent teaching of graduate courses; and service on thesis and dissertation committees.
Nominees must be full-time tenured or tenure-track Regular Graduate Faculty members who have been on the UNI faculty for a minimum of three years at the time of nomination. A faculty member may receive the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award only once and may not be nominated for any additional University teaching award in the same academic year.
Actions
- Official nomination letters accepted from Graduate Students, Faculty, and Graduate Program Coordinators and must be submitted as a PDF to gradcollege@uni.edu
- Graduate Studies informs nominees of selection and requests materials.
Deadlines
- Friday, November 3, 2025: Nominations due to Graduate Studies by 4:30 p.m.
- Monday, February 6, 2026: Nominee’s submission of digital materials due by 4:30 p.m.
- Requirements for Nominees
Nominees will be notified to electronically submit one copy of each of the following materials:
- A signed cover sheet.
- A letter of nomination by the nominator.
- Complete and current vita, focused on graduate teaching.
- A written narrative that includes the nominee’s philosophy of graduate level teaching and describes the accomplishments related to the award criteria (not to exceed 3 typed pages, 12 inch font, one-inch margins, Times New Roman).
- One letter of support. It might come from a graduate student mentored by nominee sent directly to gradcollege@uni.edu. Current students are ineligible to submit letters.
- Submission of Materials
- Submit documents as PDF files ONLY to gradcollege@uni.edu.
- Include your full last name, first name initial and the award title in the folder (Example: DOE, J. Outstanding Teaching Award).
- Include cover sheet with signatures, CV, and narrative.
- One "Support letter" on letterhead and signed by the nominator must be sent directly to: gradcollege@uni.edu.
Previous Recipients - Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award
- Jesse L. Wilcox (2024-2025)
- Wendy Hoofnagle (2023-2024)
- Eran Hanke (2022-2023)
- Sheila Benson (2021-2022)
- David I. Hernandez-Saca (2020-2021)
- Wendy Miller (2019-2020)
- Catherine Palczewski (2018-2019)
- Heminigild Mpundu (2017-2018)
- Jeremy Schraffenberger (2015-2016)
- Todd Bohnenkamp (2014-2015)
- Dawn Del Carlo (2013-2014)
- Audrey Rule (2012-2013)
- Susan Etscheidt (2011-2012)
- Victoria DeFrancisco (2010-2011)
- Marybeth Stalp (2008-2009)
- Lynn Nielsen (2007-2008)
- Ramanathan Sugumaran (2006-2007)
- Helen Harton (2005-2006)
- Samuel Gladden (2004-2005)
- Catherine Zeman (2002-2003)
- Deborah Gallagher (2001-2002)
- George K. Zucker (2000-2001)
- Sharon Smaldino (1999-2000)
- Jane L. Wong (1998-1999)