Adviser, Faculty Adviser-Mentor, Teacher and Advanced, Teacher of the Year Awards

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Qualifications

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Qualifying candidates include any full-time staff member (with at least one-year experience at FAMU) whose primary responsibility/role at FAMU is advising students, have demonstrated exceptional service to and support of students, are knowledgeable of academic requirements and university policies impacting students, demonstrated a commitment to student support programs and student services within the University, and have not received the award in seven years. No person can receive two awards (teacher and/or adviser) in the same year.

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Nomination

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Students, faculty, administrators, and alumni may nominate advisement staff members for the award on the nomination form. Given that the award is associated with advising, nominations from students are encouraged.

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Criteria

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Staff members considered for nomination should demonstrate several attributes and characteristics associated with quality advising, including (but not limited to):

• • Demonstrates a commitment to engage and help advisees in a caring manner that reinforces principles of excellence in education and authentic support for personal, academic, and professional development.
• • Maintains a thorough knowledge/mastery of the academic requirements/program(s) they are assigned to and all institutional policies, procedures, regulations, and supports relevant to students. This includes a knowledge base and collaborative relationships with other appropriate resources that students can be referred to for additional assistance.
• • Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and a genuine interest in and knowledge of students’ characteristics, culture, background, goals, and expectations.
• • Demonstrates availability and responsiveness to advisees, faculty and/or staff in their role as adviser.
• • Continuously monitors student progress toward academic and career goals and itemizes student successes.
• • Continues to engage in professional development and seeks to improve teaching and advisement skills.

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Qualifications

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Qualifying candidates include any full-time staff member (with at least one-year experience at FAMU) whose primary responsibility/role at FAMU is advising students, have demonstrated exceptional service to and support of students, are knowledgeable of academic requirements and university policies impacting students, demonstrated a commitment to student support programs and student services within the University, and have not received the award in seven years. No person can receive two awards (teacher and/or adviser) in the same year.

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Nomination

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Students, faculty, administrators, and alumni may nominate advisement staff members for the award on the nomination form. Given that the award is associated with advising, nominations from students are encouraged.

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Criteria

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Faculty members considered for nomination should demonstrate several attributes and characteristics associated with quality teaching and advising, including (but not limited to): 

• •Demonstrates a commitment to engage and help students and advisees in a caring manner that reinforces principles of excellence in education and authentic support for personal, academic, and professional development.
• • Maintains a thorough knowledge/mastery of the academic requirements/program(s) they are assigned to and all institutional policies, procedures, regulations, and supports relevant to students. This includes a knowledge base and collaborative relationships with other appropriate resources that students can be referred to for additional assistance.
• • Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and a genuine interest in and knowledge of students’/advisees’ characteristics, culture, background, goals, and expectations. 
• • Demonstrates an interested in—and uses innovative efforts focused on—motivating/stimulating students’ interest to learn. 
• • Demonstrates a mastery of teaching content, strategies and implementation. 
• • Demonstrates availability and responsiveness to students/advisees, faculty and/or staff in their role as teacher and adviser. 
• • Continuously monitors student progress toward academic and career goals and is able to itemize student successes. 
• • Continues to engage in professional development and seeks to improve teaching and advisement skills.

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Qualifications

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Qualifying candidates include any full-time faculty (with at least one year of experience at FAMU) (of at least one year on campus) whose primary responsibility is teaching (with a minimum of two undergraduate courses per semester or have at least 50% of their time assigned to teaching), have assigned advisees (with a portion of their time allotted to advisement), are knowledgeable of academic requirements and university policies impacting students, and have not received the award in seven years. No person can receive two awards (teacher and/or adviser) in the same year.

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Nomination

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Students, faculty, administrators, and alumni may nominate advisement staff members for the award on the nomination form. Given that the award is associated with advising, nominations from students are encouraged.

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Criteria

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Faculty members considered for nomination should demonstrate several attributes and characteristics associated with quality teaching and advising, including (but not limited to):

• •Demonstrates a commitment to engage and help students and advisees in a caring manner that reinforces principles of excellence in education and authentic support for personal, academic, and professional development.
• • Maintains a thorough knowledge/mastery of the academic requirements/program(s) they are assigned to and all institutional policies, procedures, regulations, and supports relevant to students. This includes a knowledge base and collaborative relationships with other appropriate resources that students can be referred to for additional assistance.
• • Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and a genuine interest in and knowledge of students’/advisees’ characteristics, culture, background, goals, and expectations.
• • Demonstrates an interested in—and uses innovative efforts focused on motivating/stimulating students’ interest to learn.
• • Demonstrates a mastery of teaching content, strategies and implementation.
• • Demonstrates availability and responsiveness to students/advisees, faculty and/or staff in their role as teacher and adviser.
• • Continuously monitors student progress toward academic and career goals and is able to itemize student successes.
• • Continues to engage in professional development and seeks to improve teaching and advisement skills.

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Qualifications

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Qualifying candidates include any full-time faculty (with at least one year of experience at FAMU) (of at least one year on campus) whose primary responsibility is teaching (with a minimum of two undergraduate courses per semester or have at least 50% of their time assigned to teaching), have assigned advisees (with a portion of their time allotted to advisement), are knowledgeable of academic requirements and university policies impacting students, and have not received the award in seven years. No person can receive two awards (teacher and/or adviser) in the same year.

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Nomination

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Students, faculty, administrators, and alumni may nominate advisement staff members for the award on the nomination form. Given that the award is associated with advising, nominations from students are encouraged.

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Criteria

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Faculty members who have demonstrated continued excellence in teaching effectiveness, advisement, research, and public service are to be nominated. All criteria for the Teacher of the Year award also apply.

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Advisor, Faculty Advisor-Mentor, Teacher and Advanced Teacher of the Year Nomination Form 2022

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