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Outstanding Faculty Awards

  1. Outstanding First Year Full-Time Faculty Award

    This annual award open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established in 2020, 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.
    2. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. There is no monetary reward for this award.

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2020-2021 (1st Year) - Xin Zhoa, Psychology
    2. 2021-2022 - David Robles, Criminal Justice
    3. 2022-2023 – Diogo Cosme, World Languages
    4. 2023-2024 – Sahar Al-Shoubaki, Department of Humanities and Languages
    5. 2024-2025 - Monica Chandler, Architecture Department
       
  2. Outstanding First Year Part-Time Faculty Award

    This annual award open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established in 2020, 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.
    2. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
    3. 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.
    4. There is no monetary reward for this award.

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2020-2021 (1st Year) - Jordan McCormack, English as a Second Language
    2. 2021-2022 - Adela Rahmati, Anthropology
    3. 2021-2022 - Zachary J. Stickney, History
    4. 2022-2023 – Emily Thompson, Psychology
    5. 2023-2024 – Aaron Rask Coden, Department of Interior Design
    6. 2024-2025 - Tasha Iglesias, Department of Sociology
  3. Outstanding Health Faculty Award

    This annual award open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established in 2021, this classically nonacademic award, is inclusive to all faculty no matter their mental, physical, or economic abilities.
    2. 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.
    3. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
    4. Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
    5. 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.
    6. There is no monetary reward for this award.

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2021-2022 (1st Year) - Deidre Tyler, Sociology
    2. 2021-2022 - Marissa Shaver, History
    3. 2021-2022 - Autumn Brittney Krogh, Advisor
    4. 2022-2023 - Anson Xuan, Mathematics
    5. 2022-2023 – Nancy Barrickman, Biology
    6. 2023-2024 – Andrew Vogt, Engineering and Engineering Technology Department
    7. 2024-2025 - Cindy Fierros, Department of Psychology
  4. Outstanding Wellbeing Faculty Award

    This annual award open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established in 2021, this classically nonacademic award, is inclusive to all faculty no matter their mental, physical, or economic abilities.
    2. 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.
    3. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
    4. Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
    5. 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.
    6. There is no monetary reward for this award.

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2021-2022 (1st Year) - Deidre Tyler, Sociology
    2. 2021-2022 - Marissa Shaver, History
    3. 2021-2022 - Autumn Brittney Krogh, Advisor
    4. 2022-2023 - Antonette Gray, Criminal Justice
    5. 2022-2023 – N.A.
    6. 2023-2024 – David Robles, Department of Criminal Justice
    7. 2024-2025 - Christie Bogle, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
  5. Outstanding Social Justice Faculty Award

    This annual award open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established 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.
    2. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
    3. Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
    4. 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.
    5. There is no monetary reward for this award.

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2021-2022 (1st Year) - James Singer, Sociology
    2. 2022-2023 - Cindy Fierros, Psychology
    3. 2023-2023 – Jerri A. Harwell, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
    4. 2023-2024 – Elisa Stone, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
    5. 2024-2025 - Claire Adams, Humanities Department
  6. Outstanding Article Faculty Award

    This annual award is open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee

    1. Established in 2021, this award has been given to one part-time or full-time faculty’s outstanding peer-reviewed published article in a journal, magazine, book, encyclopedia, or other scholarly periodical, that was published in the previous academic year.
    2. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone’s publication for this award, including their own publications.
    3. The nomination must include full title, publisher, date published, and link to the article.
    4. Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
    5. There is no monetary reward for this award.
    6. 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:

    1. how the nominated article relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission, and
    2. the importance of how the work will/is impact(ing)/influence(ing) society,
    3. the public interest of the article,
    4. the accessibility for the public to access the article,
    5. the quality of the content within the article,
    6. the rigor of the peer-review process,
    7. the ranking of the publisher of the article,
    8. the type of article in this rank order:
    9. Tier One
    10. First author
    11. (unless alphabetical order)
    12. Tier Two
    13. authored
    14. co-authored
    15. Tier Three
    16. Article in international journal/book
    17. Article in national journal/book
    18. Article in institutional journal/book
    19. Article in international encyclopedia
    20. Article in magazine
    21. Article in self-published journal/book
    22. Tier Four
    23. Top ranked journal
    24. Top ranked book

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2020-2021 (1st Year) – 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.
    2. 2021-2022 - 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.
    3. 2022-2023 – Olivas Bernice, 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.
    4. 2023-2024 – Anthony J. Nocella II, Department of Criminal Justice
      Nocella II, A. J. (2024). 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.
    5. 2024-2025 - Roberto Rojas-Alfaro, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
  7. Outstanding Book Faculty Award

    This annual award is open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established in 2022, this award has been given to one part-time or full-time faculty’s outstanding peer-reviewed published book was published in the previous two academic year.
    2. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone’s publication for this award, including their own publications.
    3. The nomination must include full title, publisher, date published, and link to the publication.
    4. Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they won this award.
    5. There is no monetary reward for this award.
    6. 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:

    1. how the nominated publication relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission, and
    2. the importance of how the work will/is impact(ing)/influence(ing) society,
    3. the public interest of the publication,
    4. the accessibility for the public to access the publication,
    5. the quality of the content within the publication,
    6. the rigor of the peer-review process,
    7. the ranking of the publisher,
    8. the type of book in this rank order:
    9. Tier One
    10. First author
    11. First editor
    12. (unless alphabetical order)
    13. Tier Two
    14. authored
    15. co-authored
    16. editor
    17. co-editor
    18. Tier Three
    19. Book international publisher
    20. Book national publisher
    21. Book institutional publisher
    22. Book self-published

    Past Award Recipients

    1. 2022-2023 (1st Year) - David Hubert, Political Science - Hubert, David (2023). Attenuated democracy: A critical introduction to U.S. government and politics. Open Educational Resources.
    2. 2023-2024 - Darin Jensen, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
      Jensen, D. & Griffiths, B. (2023). Two-Year College Writing Studies: Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching. Utah State University Press.
    3. 2024-2025 - Joanne Giordanno, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
  8. Outstanding eLearning Faculty Award

    This annual award open for nominations November 1 to November 31 each year and announced the following Spring semester, is managed by the Faculty Development, Advancement, and Research Senate Subcommittee.

    1. Established in 2022, this award will be given to one part-time or full-time faculty member for excelling in online teaching and eLearning.
    2. Salt Lake Community College employees and students may nominate someone for this award, including oneself.
    3. Someone cannot be nominated for this award in the five-year period after they have won this award.
    4. Faculty must have completed the Online Teaching Credential for teaching online to be eligible for this award. Additionally, potential candidates for this award should demonstrate and maintain and active presence in online courses (monitors and participates in online discussions, responds to emails in a timely manner, posts relevant announcements, provides substantive feedback on assignments, etc.)
    5. 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 relates strongly to SLCC’s vision, values, and mission.
    6. There is no monetary reward for this award.
    7. 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

    1. 2022-2023 (1st Year) - Jessica Curran, Visual Arts & Design
    2. 2023-2024 - Julia Ellis, Department of Criminal Justice
    3. 2024-2025 - Elizabeth Nehring, Mathematics Department