{"id":45073,"date":"2016-09-13T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45073"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T23:05:23","slug":"nominations-sought-presidents-distinguished-teaching-fellows-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nominations-sought-presidents-distinguished-teaching-fellows-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations sought for President\u2019s Distinguished Teaching Fellows Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0<strong>Rita Cheng <\/strong>is seeking nominations\u00a0of faculty members from all NAU campuses and disciplines\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Provost\/Faculty-Awards-Honors\/\"><strong>President\u2019s Distinguished Teaching Fellows<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The award identifies teaching scholars whose student-related activities represent the highest levels of excellence and who make a significant impact on learning through departmental and campus engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed for three years, fellows receive both a $5,000 stipend and $5,000 in professional development funding for teaching-related endeavors each year of their term.<\/p>\n<p>Fellows serve as leadership board members of the NAU\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nau.edu\/faculty-development\/teaching-academy\/\"><strong>Teaching Academy<\/strong><\/a>, which was created to recognize, support and reward effective teaching. The Teaching Academy is comprised of faculty members designated as their college teacher of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The optional nomination orientation sessions will be held from 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, and from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, in the Faculty Professional Development Program Teaching Commons, Cline Library, room 169. Those who plan to submit nominations for this award are invited to attend one of the\u00a0orientation sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations are due to the Office of the Provost no later than Friday, October 28. A description of the fellowship and nomination process\u00a0is\u00a0available\u00a0on the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Provost\/Faculty-Awards-Honors\/\">provost\u2019s\u00a0web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nominations-sought-presidents-distinguished-teaching-fellows-award\/\">President\u00a0Rita Cheng is seeking nominations\u00a0of faculty members from all NAU campuses and disciplines\u00a0for the\u00a0President\u2019s Distinguished Teaching Fellows. The award identifies teaching scholars whose student-related activities represent the highest levels of excellence and who make a significant impact on learning through departmental and campus engagement. Appointed for three years, fellows receive both a $5,000 stipend and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}