Matthews Underclass Teaching Award

Departments with fewer than 30 FTE faculty may nominate up to two individuals; departments with 30 or more may nominate up to three. Please include the following for each nominee:

1. Completed Nomination Form from Chair, Associate Chair, or Director. The Nomination Form will function to introduce the nomination packet, so please do not include a cover letter!
2. Enrollment and grading data for all first- and second-year courses that the nominee taught for the past four years—that is, please complete the table below for each nominee. Average grade and enrollment data are available in the Teaching History Report in the LSA Management Reporting System. (Questions about access and questions about the Teaching History Reports, interpreting the data, etc., should be sent to LSATechnologyServices@umich.edu.)
3. Teaching evaluations for all first- and second-year courses that the nominee has taught for the past four years. Please do NOT include student comments, but only the numerical ratings. If any student comments are particularly illuminating, we suggest you make reference to them in the Nomination Form.
4. (Optional but Strongly Recommended) Short “testimonials” from up to three former students of the nominee who took a class from the nominee while they were in their first or second year, using the Student Supporting Statement form. If supporting statements are solicited, please consider having the nominee provide the names and email addresses of several students who would make good candidates for this, but in the interest of confidentiality and transparency, please do not ask the nominee to reach out directly to students, and please do not inform the nominee of which students responded. Students who are asked to consider writing a statement should be given an easy way out, e.g.: “Please respond within a week if you have time, opportunity, and desire to write a supporting statement. We will not assume anything about what you think of the faculty member if you do not reply.”
5. (Optional) Up to 5 additional pages of write-ups from faculty peer evaluations/classroom observations of the nominee, or similar supporting documentation.

All submissions should be in electronic form. Paper submissions will not be accepted. Each nomination should be sent as a SINGLE PDF file to Assistant Dean Alexandra Puerto (puerto@umich.edu) and Cameron Gibelyou (gibelyou@umich.edu). Please title the PDF file “Matthews Award, [Nominee Name], [Name of Nominating Department]”.

Table from #2:

Sample Evaluation Form