TFSC Awards
View the 2024 Teaching Awards Program
The Lori Libbert New Faculty Commendation for Teaching Commitment
New faculty, faculty with two years or less of service at our university, can receive commendation for participation in 2024-2025 events and activities sponsored or supported by TFSC. Each event or activity is assigned a point value, and new faculty who earn a total of 12 or more points will receive the commendation. Faculty who believe they have earned the points required for commendation should email tfsc@uark.edu with a list of the events and activities in which they participated. This email must be received by TFSC on or before August 8, 2025. Faculty who receive commendation will be recognized at the annual Faculty Awards Reception on Tuesday, September 25, 2025.
4 points: attend 2024 Teaching Camp
2 points: attend 2024 New Faculty Orientation
2 points: attend 2024 Baum Teaching Workshop
3 points: attend 2025 Winter Teaching Symposium
4 points: attend 2025 Teaching Camp
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TFSC New Faculty Luncheon
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TFSC Cordes Chair Event
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TIPS Luncheon
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TFSC Non-Tenure Track Faculty Luncheon
2 points: be observed in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 by a TFSC Certified Peer Observer
“Not So New” Faculty Commendation For Teaching Development
Faculty with more than two years of service at our university can receive commendation for participation in 2024-2025 events and activities sponsored or supported by TFSC. Each event or activity is assigned a point value, and not-so-new faculty who earn a total of 12 or more points will receive the commendation. Faculty who believe they have earned the points required for commendation should email tfsc@uark.edu with a list of the events and activities in which they participated. This email must be received by TFSC on or before August 8, 2025. Faculty who receive commendation will be recognized at the annual Faculty Awards Reception on Tuesday, September 25, 2025.
4 points: attend 2024 Teaching Camp
2 points: attend 2024 Baum Teaching Workshop
3 points: attend 2025 Winter Teaching Symposium
4 points: attend 2025 Teaching Camp
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TFSC Not-So-New Faculty Luncheon
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TFSC Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Luncheon
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TFSC Cordes Chair Event
1 point each: attend a 2024-2025 TIPS Luncheon
1 point each: attenda a 2024-2025 TFSC Non-tenure track Faculty Luncheon
1 point: apply for a 2025-2026 TFSC grant
2 points: be observed in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 by a TFSC Certified Peer Observer
4 points: complete the TFSC Certified Peer Observer training in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025
Wallly Cordes Chair: Conversations with Colleagues
The Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center (TFSC) established the "Wally Cordes Chair" to honor its co-founder and first co-director and to celebrate an inspiring teacher and his wonderful career. Wally Cordes was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for more than 30 years. He was regarded by many as simply one of the very best teachers on campus. He had a unique style and an enthusiasm that was contagious. Wally Cordes taught large-enrollment chemistry courses, but despite the large number of students he taught each semester, he invited every student to his office each semester to spend five minutes in his rocking chair to meet their professor.
Through Conversations with Colleagues, the Wally Cordes TFSC continues the tradition of informal conversations meant to cultivate a community united in learning by honoring a different teaching faculty member on campus each month as the Wally Cordes Chairperson. The Wally Cordes Chairperson possesses the Wally Cordes rocking chair and hosts an informal conversation about teaching and learning. Thus, the "chair" travels the campus but consistently brings together those dedicated to helping each other improve student success at the University of Arkansas. Notifications of the Wally Cordes Chair events around campus are sent to all faculty prior to each monthly program.
See a list of award winners
The Ro Di Brezzo Service to Teaching Award
The codirectors award a faculty member who provided substantial service to teaching. Dr. Ro Di Brezzo is a co-founder of the Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center and has served as a co-director from 1992 to 1997.
The Paul Cronan Technology Teaching Excellence Award
Nominations will be taken for faculty members who have excelled in using technology to enhance their teaching. Dr. Paul Cronan is a co-founder of the Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center and has also served as co-director in 1992-1994 and 2011-2014.
Watch for the call for nominations circulated on the faculty listserv and in the UA News.
Other Teaching Awards on Campus
Departmental Teaching Award
Awarded annually to the department or academic unit on campus that best displays excellence in teaching. This department will receive $10,000 and a trophy, as well as having the unit name placed on a university plaque housed in that department for a year.
Teaching Academy Teaching Award
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- Dr. John and Lois Imhoff Award for Outstanding Teaching and Student Mentorship
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The purpose of the Academy is to promote and recognize effective teaching and learning at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. It is different from the Teaching Center however we work with them to co-sponsors programs such as the Teaching Awards Banquet. Membership is by nomination and vote and members are considered "Fellows" of the Academy . For more on the Teaching Academy, check out their Constitution.
Office of the Provost Teaching Awards
The Charles and Nadine Baum Foundation is supporting an award for the recognition of Outstanding Teaching. This award is designated for a faculty member whose status is Full, University, or Distinguished Professor.
Alumni Association Rising Teacher Award
Service Learning Teaching Award
Graduate School Teaching Award
Student Affairs Faculty Award
Other UA Faculty Awards
Advising Awards
Mentoring
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Research
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Service
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Committment to International Education
Teaching Awards Off Campus
(These are non-discipline specific)
Robert Foster Cherrry Award for Great Teaching
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- The Cherry Award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers. The recipient of the Cherry Award will receive a prize of $250,000 and will teach in residence at Baylor University during an upcoming semester.
Delphi Award. For improving working conditions for adjunct faculty.
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- We seek applications from a wide range of groups at multiple levels who have made changes to support contingent, non-tenure-track and/or adjunct faculty. Applicants are not limited to colleges or universities, but we do require that applicants show they are connected to and having an impact on colleges or universities, given that colleges and universities are the primary contexts wherein contingent, non-tenure-track and adjunct faculty do their work,