Presidential Teaching Excellence Award

The Presidential Teaching Excellence Award recognizes Weber State faculty who demonstrate outstanding teaching and make a meaningful difference in student learning and success.

Teaching excellence can take many forms and may look different across disciplines, courses, teaching environments, and faculty roles. It may be demonstrated through the ways faculty engage and challenge students, support learning and growth, provide meaningful feedback, create opportunities to apply learning, foster connection and curiosity, or help students recognize what they are capable of.

Up to 12 awards may be given each year to eligible tenure-track, non-tenure-track, instructor and adjunct faculty members. Recipients receive a $5,000 cash award (less benefits and applicable withholding taxes).

Nomination Process and Timeline

Members of the Weber State community (students, faculty, staff, and administrators) are eligible to nominate a faculty member for a Presidential Teaching Excellence Award.

Nominators should complete the online nomination form below. We invite nominators to share specific examples or experiences that help us understand what the faculty member does and the difference their teaching makes for students. We encourage nominations that reflect the many ways and places excellent teaching happens across Weber State, including excellent teaching that may not always be highly visible.

Following the nomination period, eligible nominations will move through a multi-stage review process that considers nomination evidence and additional information provided by selected nominees. Recommendations will receive review by academic leadership before Weber State's president makes the final selection of recipients.

Nominations open September 25 and close November 15..

Recipients will be notified by January 31 and recognized at the annual Thrive Banquet held during the spring semester.

Note: Faculty are eligible to receive the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award each year.

Nomination Form

Recipients