Celebrating Teaching: Awards News and Updates
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- Three USask faculty members honoured with Lieutenant Governor’s Post-Secondary Teaching Award - Article, USask News
- Biology professor to receive USask Distinguished Teacher Award - Article, USask News
- Provost’s Teaching Award Winners (2023) - USask Faculty & Staff Awards page
- USask College of Engineering wins award for innovative revamp of first-year program - Article, USask News
- Professor Kim earns USask Master Teacher Award - Article, College of Medicine
- USask honours 2023 Teaching Award winners - Article, USask News
Nomination period for the Fall USask Distinguished Teacher Award is open!
Celebrate excellence in teaching, and nominate a colleague! See details below.
Institutional Teaching Awards
Nominations for the Distinguished Teacher Award below must be submitted directly to the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning via email.
The nominations deadline is February 15th and August 15th of each year.
Nominations for the awards listed below must be submitted directly to the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Nomination deadline is February 15th of each year, using this submission portal:
Award |
Eligibility |
Provost’s Outstanding Teacher Award |
Open to all tenure-track or continuing status faculty members who are beyond the first five years of their appointment at USask, including faculty who teach only graduate students. |
Provost’s Award for Collaborative Teaching and Learning |
Awarded for collaboration by two or more instructors (may also include staff – but must have at least 1 faculty member) in the design and delivery of the project.The collaborative initiative must be curricular and completed more than once. |
Provost’s New Teacher Award |
Nominees must be tenure-track or continuing status faculty members whose first faculty appointment is at the University of Saskatchewan and who are within the first five years of their appointment. Nominees will still be eligible if they have taught (as a graduate student or sessional lecturer) at USask or elsewhere prior to their initial appointment as a faculty member, so long as their first continuing faculty appointment is at USask. |
Provost’s Graduate Student Teacher Award |
For graduate students at any stage in their studies who have assisted teaching or co-taught for at least one academic term, and are registered as students during the term in which they are nominated. |
Provost’s Award for Support of Teaching & Learning |
All USask staff members who support course design and delivery, and instruction, who are not faculty, term or sessional instructors (for example: curriculum specialists, student advisors, librarians, career counsellors, and lab support staff). Nominations may come from outside the unit or department in which the nominee is employed. |
Nominations for the Sylvia Wallace Award listed below must be submitted directly to the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Nomination deadline is February 15th of each year, using this submission portal:
Sylvia Wallace Sessional Lecturer Award |
This award is for sessional lecturers at USask, including individuals who may be simultaneously studying at the graduate or post-doctoral level. |
College-Level Teaching Awards
Nominations for the Provost's College Awards must be submitted to each College or School first. Each College or School adjudicates their own nominations, then the successful nomination must be sent to the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Nomination deadline to your College or School is February 1st each year.
Nomination deadline for a College or School to submit their successful nomination to the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning is by February 15th of each year using this submission portal:
Provost’s College Teaching Awards |
The Provost’s College Teaching Award annually recognizes a teacher in each College or School at the University of Saskatchewan, who has demonstrated teaching excellence. These awards are selected at the College level. One award may be allotted in each of the following colleges or schools:
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Provincial and National Teaching Awards
Educators at USask are eligible under most circumstances to apply for the following national teaching awards. In each case, institutional support of a nomination is required. For more information about these awards and the nomination process, contact awards_gmctl@usask.ca.
- Lieutenant Governor’s Post-Secondary Teaching Award
- 3M National Teaching Fellowship: The highest award for exceptional teaching in Canada.
- Alan Blizzard Collaborative Projects Award: Rewarding collaboration in teaching.
- D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning: An international award recognizing innovation in post-secondary teaching.