Award Description

This award was established to recognize full-time, tenured/ tenure-track faculty members for a record of teaching excellence at the University of North Texas for at least a five (5) year period. The $3,000 award is funded by the President's Council. The award will be presented at the Salute to Faculty Excellence Dinner and Ceremony.

Selection Process and Eligibility

Faculty may be nominated for this award by the Personnel Affairs Committee (PAC) of a department, division, school, or college or by an ad-hoc committee of three (3) or more tenured/tenure-track faculty members. Previous recipients of these awards are not eligible for nomination for five (5) years following receipt of the award.

Deadline

Selection criteria, application form, and nomination deadline can be found on the Faculty Senate website.

Award Recipients

YEAR FACULTY MEMBER DEPARTMENT
YEARYEAR

2024-2025

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Joanna Davis-McElligatt

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

English

YEARYEAR

2024-2025

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Wesley Phelps

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2023-2024

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Frances Perkins

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Media Arts

YEARYEAR

2023-2024

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Kathryne Beebe

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2022-2023

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Ӧzlem Altıok

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Women's and Gender Studies, International Studies

YEARYEAR

2022-2023

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Michael Wise

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2021-2022

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Nora Gilbert

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

English

YEARYEAR

2021-2022

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Sandra C. Mendiola García

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2020-2021

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Glen Biglaiser

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science 

YEARYEAR

2020-2021

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Eric Nestler

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Instrumental Studies, Woodwinds

YEARYEAR

2019-2020

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Priscilla Ybarra

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

English

YEARYEAR

2019-2020

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Christopher Fuhrmann

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2018-2019

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Elizabeth A. Oldmixon

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science

YEARYEAR

2018-2019

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Shelley A. Riggs

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Psychology

YEARYEAR

2017-2018

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Bethany Blackstone

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Political Science

YEARYEAR

2017-2018

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Thorne Anderson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Mayborn School of Journalism

YEARYEAR

2016-2017

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Peter Johnstone

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Criminal Justice

YEARYEAR

2016-2017

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Carol Wickstrom

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Teacher Education and Administration

YEARYEAR

2015-2016

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Nancy Stockdale

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

History

YEARYEAR

2015-2016

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Gopala Ganesh

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Marketing and Logistics

YEARYEAR

2014-2015

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Manjula Salimath

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Management

YEARYEAR

2014-2015

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Ruthanne Thompson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Biological Sciences

YEARYEAR

2013-2014

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Nicole Smith

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

English

YEARYEAR

2013-2014

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Derrick D'Souza

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Management

YEARYEAR

2012-2013

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Casey Barrio Minton

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Counseling and Higher Education

YEARYEAR

2012-2013

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Janice Hauge

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Economics

YEARYEAR

2011-2012

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Neal Brand

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Mathematics

YEARYEAR

2011-2012

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Dee Ray

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Counseling and Higher Education

YEARYEAR

2010-2011

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Donna Ledgerwood

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Management

YEARYEAR

2010-2011

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Fang-Ling Lu

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Speech and Hearing Sciences

YEARYEAR

2009-2010

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Margie Tieslau

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Economics

YEARYEAR

2009-2010

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Haj Ross

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Linguistics and Technical Communication

YEARYEAR

2008-2009

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Pam Harrell

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Teacher Education and Administration

YEARYEAR

2008-2009

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Robin Henson

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Educational Psychology

YEARYEAR

2007-2008

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Yvonne Chandler

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Library Science and Information

YEARYEAR

2007-2008

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Bert Hayslip Jr.

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Psychology

YEARYEAR

2006-2007

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Sue Bratton

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Counseling and Higher Education

YEARYEAR

2006-2007

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Richard Tas

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Hospitality Management

YEARYEAR

2005-2006

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Duncan Weathers

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Physics

YEARYEAR

2005-2006

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Joseph Klein

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Music

YEARYEAR

2004-2005

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Linda Di Fiore

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Music

YEARYEAR

2004-2005

FACULTY MEMBERFACULTY MEMBER

Jennifer Way

DEPARTMENTDEPARTMENT

Art History