Dean Marcia J. Hern awards in Teaching and Research presented

April 10, 2015

The awards were created by Dean Hern for creative teaching and research. Each is a separate award worth $1000. These Hern Teaching and Hern Research awards will be granted each spring to eligible full-time, term, probationary, or tenured faculty.

Criteria for the Teaching Award include:

  • Demonstrates excellence in innovative teaching and pedagogy
  • Displays leadership in curriculum or innovative teaching and/or course development
  • Contributes to the teaching mission of the SON and quality of student life
  • Shows effective mentoring
  • Designs creative and novel learning experiences
  • Receives letters of acknowledgment of mentorship and support from colleagues
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge in content area
  • Participates in faculty teaching development activities
  • Earns honors and awards

Criteria for the Research Award include:

  • Demonstrates excellence in conduct and dissemination of nursing research
  • Displays a commitment to research demonstrated by an on-going program of scholarship
  • Continued program of dissemination of research findings locally, regionally, nationally and internationally
  • Collaborates with faculty & students
  • Demonstrates evidence of interdisciplinary program of research
  • Receives honors and awards reflecting excellence in scholarship
  • Demonstrates research integrity
  • Generates new nursing knowledge
  • Translates/applies research into practice or policy

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