Spring nominations for the 2022 teaching award are open

The James H. Burness for Excellence in Teaching recognizes faculty for their work at Penn State York
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Spring nominations for the James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching are now being accepted.  Deadline for nominations is March 11.

Credit: Barbara Dennis

YORK, Pa. — Nominations are being accepted for the 2021-22 James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is given annually to recognize any aspect of excellent instruction — lectures, demonstrations, classroom activities, handling of discussions, individual attention, laboratory instruction, etc. — that contributes to the academic quality of Penn State York.

The purpose of the award is to recognize excellence in instruction, not to identify the most popular faculty member. The teaching award is named in memory of the late James H. Burness, in recognition of his outstanding teaching and service to the campus. Burness died in December 1999.

All faculty are eligible to be nominated except for recipients of the award in the past four years: Jessica Petko and James Miller (2018), Nicole Muscanell and Janet McNally (2019), Sonia Molloy and Lou Paioletti (2020), and Joe Royer and Megan Lorenz (2021).

Two awards are given: one to a full-time faculty member and one to a part-time faculty member. Do not worry whether a faculty member is full-time or part-time, the Teaching Award Committee will divide the nominations accordingly.

This nomination form is for faculty who are teaching in fall 2021. Nominations should be as specific as possible with comments about nominees. When the committee receives something such as "she's a great professor and definitely deserves the award," it does not help with the decision-making process.

Nominations should be submitted online by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 11.

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