University Distinguished Teaching Awards

Established in 1987, the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) highlights New York University's commitment to teaching excellence and is given annually to selected outstanding members of the faculty. Recipients are presented with a research stipend.

NYU community members (i.e. administrators, alumni, current students, faculty, and staff) wishing to submit a nomination are encouraged to contact their School Representative no later than Friday, December 9, 2022. Final nominations from school representatives to the NYU All-University Selection Committee are due on Friday, February 17, 2023.

Eligibility

Only full-time faculty members with at least ten years of service at NYU. Please note that while current adjuncts are not eligible for consideration, current full-time faculty may count past adjunct service towards the ten-year eligibility requirement.
Current adjuncts are not eligible for consideration, however current full-time faculty may count past adjunct service towards the ten-year eligibility requirement.
Past winners of the award may not be renominated. Please review this list of previous winners before nomination.
Faculty members must hold one of the following job titles
- Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor
- Clinical Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor
- Research Professor, Research Associate Professor, Research Assistant Professor
- Industry Assistant Professor, Industry Associate Professor, Industry Full Professor, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer
- Master Teacher, Teacher
- Arts Professor, Arts Associate Professor, Arts Assistant Professor

Criteria for Selection

Nominees to the Distinguished Teaching Award must demonstrate extraordinary commitment to, and innovation and effectiveness in, teaching and learning at the University as measured by the following criteria:

Has developed an informed, student-centric pedagogical approach as indicated by supporting statements (eg. student evaluations, letters from current and previous students, examples of syllabi, teaching philosophy)
Engages students in critical thinking and independent inquiry through innovative assessment and other student-directed practices (for example, these can include: stimulating in-class activities, engaging approaches to lecture, creative homework assignments, innovative or exceptionally thoughtful exams, and/or final or semester-long collaborative and other projects).
Has a record of mentoring students in their studies (in the classroom and outside classroom experiences such as clinical or field supervision), in their navigation of campus culture, and in their preparation for professional-life.
Has developed new curricula, new courses, new laboratory experiments, or new media for learning, thereby contributing to enhanced teaching within their field and/or across domains.
Has received prior institutional and or internal school-based recognition for teaching and curriculum development

School Committee Selection and Nomination Process

Students, faculty, and alumni wishing to submit a nomination are encouraged to contact their School Representative, which can be found in the list below.

After the school receives all of the nominations, they engage in their own selection process. Generally, each school forms a committee that comprises faculty, students, school alumni, and a representative of the dean's office. The committee then reviews the nominees to confirm that they not only meet the DTA criteria but reflect the tenets of teaching excellence for that particular school. One nominee may be advanced to the NYU All-University Selection Committee by the deadline, February 17, 2023. Please review the CFA’s recommendations for selecting and advancing competitive nominees.

Committee Member	School / Organization / Unit	Submit Nominations To
Richard Kalb Associate Dean WSUC	College of Arts & Science	rk2@nyu.edu
Leila Jahangiri Professor with Chair - NTE	College of Dentistry	lj14@nyu.edu
Donna Shelley Professor and Vice Chair for Research	College of Global Public Health	gph.teachingaward@nyu.edu
Heidi White Clinical Professor	Faculty of Arts and Science; Continuing Faculty Senators Council (C-FSC)	-
Gregory Erickson Clinical Professor	Gallatin School of Individualized Study	gte1@nyu.edu
Joan Cangiarella Associate Professor	Grossman School of Medicine	erica.torres2@nyulangone.org
Aaron Tenenbein Professor and Director of the Actuarial Science	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	at1@stern.nyu.edu
Joyce Apsel Clinical Professor	Liberal Studies	Google Form
Taneli Kukkonen Professor	NYU Abu Dhabi	Google Form
Lena Scheen Assistant Professor	NYU Shanghai	Google Form
John Gershman Clinical Professor	Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service	john.gershman@nyu.edu
Dorothy Wholihan Clinical Professor and Program Director, Advanced Practice Palliative Care Specialty Sequence	Rory Meyers College of Nursing	dw57@nyu.edu
Lisa Waldman Associate Dean / Chief Operating Officer	School of Law	lisa.waldman@nyu.edu
Hui Soo Chae Executive Director, Center for Academic Excellence and Support	School of Professional Studies	Qualtrics Form
Carol Tosone Professor	Silver School of Social Work	carol.tosone@nyu.edu
Ted Magder Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication	Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development	tm30@nyu.edu
Elisa Riedo Director, Faculty Development	Tandon School of Engineering	er124@nyu.edu
Gwendolyn Quinn Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology	Grossman School of Medicine; Tenured/Tenured Track Faculty Senators Council (T-FSC)	-
Fred Carl Co-Associate Dean of Faculty and Associate Arts Professor	Tisch School of the Arts	Google Form

2021-2022 DTA Winners

2021-2022 Distinguished Teaching Award Winners (top left to bottom right): Donna Hallas, Clinical Professor, Rory Meyers College of Nursing; Sonia Marciano, Clinical Professor, Management & Organizations, Leonard N. Stern School of Business; Mara Mills, Associate Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Michael Poles, Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine, Grossman School of Medicine; Mark Siegal, Professor, Biology and Genomics, Faculty of Arts and Science; Kenji Yoshino, Professor, School of Law.

DTA Video Series

Interviews with annual award winners who share successful classroom strategies, and how they continue to grow as teachers in spite of and because of the challenges they face.

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If you could travel back in time, what would you tell yourself on your first day of teaching?

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