Four-Year Institution Faculty of the Year Award – South Carolina Academy of Science

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Nominee Information

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Years of Full-time Teaching at Current Institution *

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Application Checklist. Your completed application packet will be uploaded as a single PDF. By checking each box below, you confirm that your application includes the following items: *

1) Nomination Form
2) Curriculum Vitae – be sure to include relevant experience over the last five years.
3) Narrative Statement on Teaching Effectiveness/Innovation. This statement should address the applicants teaching philosophy, examples of effective teaching approaches implemented in their classroom/labs, and any successful new pedagogical innovations implemented in the classroom/labs and its impact on student learning. This statement should be a maximum of two pages, single spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins.
4) Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness. Please include all of the following items A-C:
4.A) Please include examples of teaching evaluations. Please include at least one and not more than three teaching evaluations or three peer evaluations in the last three years.
4.B) Please include evidence of mentoring and advising students. These can include number of students advised or clubs or organizations supervised in the last three years.
4.C) Please include a template of teaching courses taught each semester over the last three years: Include a table with the following columns: Year/Semester; Course ID; Course Title; Approximate Number of Students; Contact Hours.
5) Please include Supervisor/Administrator/Colleague’s letter of support, discussing the candidates teaching effectiveness, innovation and impact on student learning (two page limit).
6) Please include current student/alumni letter of support discussing how this teacher has impacted them (two page limit).

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Upload your completed application here as one PDF file. Please name the file in the following format: NOMINEELASTNAME_2026_SCASFA.

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