Faculty Awards
The nomination and/or application process for all SLCC faculty awards and grants (that may be managed by different offices/programs/departments) hold to the utmost respect and privacy of the applicant, nominator and/or nominee, by the nomination committee or administrator(s), to assure a thorough, honest, and impartial consideration. Anyone at SLCC can nominate anyone eligible for the award, including yourself. The same person can be nominated for multiple awards. All awards are determined by the past academic year to the present.
Annual Faculty Awards
This annual award is given by the SLCC Foundation Board to recognize true excellence in professional educators.
The Foundation provides a substantial dollar award along with valuable and heart-felt SLCC-wide recognition of teaching excellence at SLCC. The Teaching Excellence Award reflects a cumulative body of teaching excellence including a sound understanding of teaching practice and successful work with students. Awards are given to full-time and adjunct faculty. All members of the SLCC College community - students, faculty members, staff, and administrators - are invited to nominate a faculty member. This award is managed by Faculty Development & Transformational Educational Initiatives and the Office of the Provost For more information and questions, please contact Rachel Marcial, Assistant Director of Faculty Development at rachel.marcial@slcc.edu.
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to articulate the criteria and process of the SLCC Teaching Excellence Award. The award should reflect a cumulative body of teaching excellence.
Criteria
A nominee must have achieved excellence in each of the following:
- At least three years of excellent performance as a teacher at SLCC
- A sound understanding of teaching practice and pedagogy as evidenced by successful work with students
- Student confidence in the faculty member as a teacher.
Process
The Teaching Excellence Award process is divided into two phases:
- First, the nomination process where students, fellow faculty, and staff are encouraged to nominate excellent faculty
- Second, the nominee completes the Nominee Application Process
Submissions include:
- Faculty nominee must submit a URL link to their ePortfolio Teaching tab.
- In the Teaching tab, faculty need to include the following:
- Teaching Pedagogy/Philosophy
- Teaching Practices
- Teaching Goals
- Evidence of Quality Teaching
- curriculum involvement
- evaluations
- informal supportive letters from students, administrators, other faculty and staff
- formal supportive letters from students, administrators, other faculty and staff
ePortfolio Annual Teaching Excellence Award Tutorial - YouTube
A fuller description of the purpose, principles, criteria, and process can be found in the “Full Time Faculty Handbook for Compensation and Workload” Appendix 12: Teaching Excellence
If you would like to nominate an amazing, excellent teacher, use the nomination form below. (Self-nominations are welcome)
This annual award is managed by the Associate Provost, Learning Advancement.
Every year the college community comes together to hear about the exciting work of one of its faculty. The Distinguished Faculty Lecturer is both a recognition of quality work by one of our full-time faculty and also a charge to develop that work over the course of an academic year into a public presentation that might take the form of a lecture, demonstration, or performance. The lecture typically takes place in April each year, and the recipient is recognized at Commencement.
Application Process
Applications for the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer are solicited a year in advance. Each December, the Associate Provost for Learning Advancement puts out a call for applications for the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, and a committee composed predominantly of faculty choose among the applications. The chosen applicant will be the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in the following spring, giving him/her a year in which to complete their project and polish their presentation.
The Current Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
Kristi M. Green, PhD
Associate Professor and Management Department Coordinator for the Gail Miller School of Business
For associate professor Kristi Green, SLCC is a beacon for diversity in how it supports marginalized communities in obtaining higher education. She sees this mission of inclusivity as a value that the college embraces daily.
Even so, Kristi notes there are still few Latinas in higher education leadership positions. As SLCC’s Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 2024, Kristi’s lecture will focus on the ‘counterstories’ of Latinas working in higher education and how colleges can foster more inclusive environments. “Counterstorytelling is a method of recounting the experiences of the racially and socially marginalized,” Kristi says.
In her eight years at SLCC, Kristi has taught courses on Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Management, among others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Utah, a Master of Business Administration from Independence University, and a PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Wyoming.
Previous Distinguished Faculty Lecturers
- 2023 — Anne Canavan, Department of English, Linguistics & Writing Studies
- 2022 — Adam Dastrup, Geosciences
- 2021 — Craig E. Ferrin
- 2020 — Jane Drexler
- 2019 — Marlena Stanford
- 2018 — Lon Schiffbauer
- 2017 — John Close
- 2016 — Ted Moore
- 2015 — Melissa Helquist
- 2014 — Karen Kwan
- 2013 — Lisa Bickmore
- 2012 — Tiffany Rousculp
- 2011 — Anne Graham
- 2010 — Jason Pickavance
- 2009 — Harry Hughes
- 2008 — Lynn Kilpatrick
- 2007 — Howard Ingle
- 2006 — Danny A.C. Martinez and Sharon DeReamer
- 2005 — Randal Chase
- 2005 — Katherine Bruner
- 2004 — Rodayne Esmay and Deidre Ann Tyler
- 2003 — Lynn Suksdorf , Larry Hancock, and Sheila Chambers
- 2002 — John Fritz
- 2000 — Paul Lerdahl
- 1998 — Dorleen Jenson
- 1997 — Grace Vlam
- 1996 — Ron Valcarce and Clifton Sanders
- 1995 — Katherine McIntyre
- 1994 — Terry Martin
This nonannual award is managed by the Provost Office.
The Exemplary Faculty Service Award, nonannual award, founded 2014 by then Provost Chris Picard, is given to one full-time faculty, while at Salt Lake Community College, which has given outstanding service to the college, the profession, and/or larger community. The award recipients are honored in the following ways:
- Receive a commemorative award.
- Walk with faculty leaders and teaching excellence award winners at commencement.
- Be honored at a Recognition dinner sponsored by the Provost and attended by semi-finalists.
- Be named on a plaque to be displayed publicly.
Rationale
College and community service is a significant part of the professional lives of faculty, and in highlighting this service, this award underscores the essential role faculty play in shared governance, and in the nuts-and-bolts, day-to-day work required to make a college work, to keep quality higher education and community impact the hallmark of SLCC, and to move the college forward in our larger institutional goals.
Criteria
- The primary type of service for which this award is intended includes, but not limited to leadership roles, board service, work on committees, and ad-hoc projects to the college, the profession, and/or larger community.
- The award is for service clearly “above and beyond” one’s normal duties and responsibilities to the college, the profession, and/or larger community.
- Nominee should have a record of multiple service activities, or a single major activity over a sustained period to the college, the profession, and/or larger community.
- The primary criterion is one of impact. There should be substantial evidence that a nominee’s service activities have had a significant positive impact on the life of the college, the profession, and/or the community.
This annual award open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2021, this award has been given to one first year full-time faculty member for their overall exceptional work in professional development and activities, community and college service, and pedagogy and professing practices in their first year at Salt Lake Community College.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on both the nomination letter(s) and faculty ePortfolio. Each should describe and demonstrate how the nominee is outstanding in the areas of professional community and college service, faculty activities and development and professing practices. The evaluation criteria includes how the nominee relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
- In addition to the nomination letter(s), nominees must submit a published ePortfolio describing and demonstrating outstanding work in professional development and activities, community and college service, and pedagogy and professing practices.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Sahar Al-Shoubaki, Department of Humanities & Languages
- 2023 - Dr. Diogo Cosme, World Languages
- 2022 - David Robles, Criminal Justice
- 2021 - Xin Zhao, Psychology
This annual award open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2021, this award has been given to one first year part-time faculty member for their overall exceptional work in teaching in their first year at Salt Lake Community College.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing and demonstrating how the nominee is outstanding in their pedagogy and professing practices. The evaluation criteria include how the nominee relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Aaron Rask Coden, Department of Interior Design
- 2023 - Emily Thompson, Psychology
- 2022 - Adela Rahmati, Anthropology
- 2022 - Zachary J. Stickney, History
- 2021 - Jordan McCormack, English as a Second Language
This annual award open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2021, this classically nonacademic award, is inclusive to all faculty no matter their mental, physical, or economic abilities.
- This award recognizes outstanding faculty for their current activities of keeping outstanding physical or mental health through activities such, but not limited to, swimming, therapy, counseling, running, rolling, biking, dancing, diet, meditation, yoga or hiking in the previous academic year.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
- Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing and demonstrating how the nominee has proven exceptional time and energy toward their individual health. The evaluation criteria include how the nominee relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Andrew Vogt, Engineering and Engineering Technology Department
- 2023 - Dr. Nancy Barrickman, Biology
- 2022 - Nancy Barrickman, Biology
- 2022 - Anson Xuan, Mathematics
- 2021 - Deidre Tyler, Sociology
- 2021 - Marissa Shaver, History
- 2021 - Autumn Brittney Krogh, Advisor
This annual award open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2021, this classically nonacademic award, is inclusive to all faculty no matter their mental, physical, or economic abilities.
- This award recognizes outstanding faculty for caring for themselves, while navigating a physical, mental, and/or biological illness or disease in the previous academic year.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
- Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing and demonstrating how the nominee has proven exceptional time and energy toward caring for their wellbeing in fighting or overcoming a serious illness or disease. The evaluation criteria includes how the nominee relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - David Robles, Department of Criminal Justice
- 2022 - Antonette Gray, Criminal Justice
- 2021 - Deidre Tyler, Sociology
- 2021 - Marissa Shaver, History
- 2021 - Autumn Brittney Krogh, Advisor
This annual award open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2021, this award has been given to one part-time or full-time faculty member for going beyond being inclusive and equitable, by working to end oppression in society and/or the campus by addressing harm and reparation for a marginalized group as an activist in the previous academic year.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
- Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing and demonstrating how the nominee has proven outstanding actions on the campus and in their community as a social justice scholar-activist. The evaluation criteria include how the nominee relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Elisa Stone, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
- 2023 - Jerri A. Harwell, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
- 2022 - Cindy Fierros, Psychology
- 2021 - James Singer, Sociology
This annual award open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2022, this award is given to one part-time or full-time faculty member for excelling in online teaching.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
- Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they have won this award.
- Faculty must have completed the Online Teaching Credential for teaching online to be eligible for this award.
- Faculty for this award should demonstrate and maintain a regular active presence in online courses, such as, but not limited to positive encouragement and announcements to students throughout the course.
- Faculty nominations should demonstrate important and regular engagement in online courses through innovative discussion posts, student-to-student interaction, and thorough and timely feedback on assignments.
- Faculty nominations should include specific samples of student engagement and innovative use of existing technology that gives students variety in their assignments.
- Faculty nominations should showcase how their pedagogical approach and curriculum design of an online course supports justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing and demonstrating how the nominee has proven outstanding teaching in an online environment—paying careful attention to the details above. The evaluation criteria include how the nominee’s pedagogy reflects SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Julia Ellis, Department of Criminal Justice
- 2023 - Jessica Curran, Visual Arts & Design
This annual award is open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.
- Beginning in 2022, this award is given to one part-time or full-time faculty’s outstanding peer-reviewed published open educational resource book, paperback book, hardback book, ebook, and anti-copyright book that was published in the previous three academic years.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone’s publication for this award, including their own publications.
- The nomination must include full title, publisher, date published, and link to the publication.
- Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing the following:
- how the nominated publication relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission, and
- the importance of how the work will/is impact(ing)/influence(ing) society,
- the public interest of the publication,
- the accessibility for the public to access the publication,
- the quality of the content within the publication,
- the rigor of the peer-review process,
- the ranking of the publisher,
- the type of book in this rank order:
- Tier One
- First author
- First editor
- (unless alphabetical order)
- Tier Two
- authored
- co-authored
- editor
- co-editor
- Tier Three
- Book international publisher
- Book national publisher
- Book institutional publisher
- Book self-published
- Tier One
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Darin Jensen, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies Jensen, Darin & Griffiths, Brett (2023). Two-year college writing studies: Rationale and praxis for just teaching. Utah State University Press.
- 2023 - David Hubert, Political Science - Hubert, David (2023). Attenuated democracy: A critical introduction to U.S. government and politics. Open Educational Resources.
This annual award is open for nominations November 1 to December 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee
- Beginning in 2021, this award is given to one part-time or full-time faculty’s outstanding peer-reviewed published article in an open educational resource, handbook, journal, online journal, blog, magazine, ebook, hardback book, paperback book, encyclopedia, anti-copyright publication, or other scholarly periodical, that was published in the previous three academic years.
- Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone’s publication for this award, including their own publications.
- The nomination must include full title, publisher, date published, and link to the article.
- Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
- The evaluation criteria for this award are based on the nomination letter(s) describing the following:
- how the nominated article relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission, and
- the importance of how the work will/is impact(ing)/influence(ing) society,
- the public interest of the article,
- the accessibility for the public to access the article,
- the quality of the content within the article,
- the rigor of the peer-review process,
- the ranking of the publisher of the article,
- the type of article in this rank order:
- Tier One
- First author
- (unless alphabetical order)
- Tier Two
- authored
- co-authored
- Tier Three
- Article in international journal/book
- Article in national journal/book
- Article in institutional journal/book
- Article in international encyclopedia
- Article in magazine
- Article in self-published journal/book
- Tier Four
- Top ranked journal
- Top ranked book
- Tier One
- There is no monetary reward for this award.
- After the FDAR committee determines the winner for this award, the winner will be notified in the spring via a formal letter and be furnished with a certificate. In addition, an announcement will be provided in SLCC Today and made at the Faculty Convention. The winner will be listed on the SLCC Faculty Awards and Grants webpage.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 - Anthony J. Nocella II, Department of Criminal Justice
Nocella II, Anthony J. (2024). Chapter One: Dismantling neoliberalism in higher education: Building community education not community corporate factories. In A. J. Nocella II, Resisting Neoliberal Schooling: Dismantling the Rubricization and Corporatization of Higher Education. Peter Lang Publishing. - 2023 - Dr. Bernice Olivas, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies - Olivas, Bernice (2022). Developing academic identity while inventing the university. S. Waite & P. W. Moe (Eds.), Inventing the Discipline. Parlor Press.
- 2022 - Emmanuel Santa-Martinez - Santa-Martinez, Emmanuel, Cardoso Castro, Cibele, Flick, Andrew, Sullivan, Michael, Riday, Heathcliffe, Clayton, Murray K. & Brunet, Johanne (2021). Bee species visiting Medicago sativa differ in pollen deposition curves with consequences for gene flow. American Journal of Botany. 108(6):1016-1028.
- 2021 - Pook Carson - Carson, Pook. (2018). How calculative are managers when evaluating signals?: An empirical examination of signaling theory in trust formation. Journal of Business & Economic Policy. Vol. 5, No. 4.
Faculty Annual Grants
This grant is overseen by the Director, Community Relations.
This one-year long grant is open to full-time Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) faculty and staff working to advance SLCC’s mission to promote engaged learning and outreach.
- Deadline: First round, May. Second round: September. Requests of $2,000 or less may be submitted all year.
- Amount: $250-$20,000
This grant is overseen by the Engaged Learning Office.
The Community-Engaged Learning Designation Program seeks proposals for the development of new and modified community-engaged learning courses, Engaged Department/program designations, and Civic Faculty Fellows. Money is awarded directly to individual faculty members, or funding can also cover costs for implementing community engagement projects, professional development, and more!
This grant is overseen by the SLCC Faculty Development and Educational Initiatives Office.
This grant is overseen by the Office of Sponsored Projects.