ASSU is hosting a cover design contest for this year’s anti-calendar! The due date is April 1st, 2010 (the last day of classes).  Submissions must be in a high resolution PDF format with dimensions of 8.5 x 11. The caldendar will be printed on a black background so you have the choice of using ASSU pink or white (or both) in your design.  Please send submissions to students.assu@utoronto.ca. Good luck!

The Arts & Science Students’ Union (ASSU) is sponsoring this award to recognize outstanding teaching at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Arts & Science, St. George campus. The award-winning instructor will receive a commemorative plaque and a $500. prize which will go towards a Departmental initiative for undergraduate students.

Criteria for the Award
The award is made on the basis of excellence in teaching and contributions to undergraduate education.  In evaluating nominees, the following criteria are considered:

*Stimulates and challenges students’ intellectual capacity
*Is skillful at communicating the course material to students
*Shows mastery of the subject area
*Is highly accessible to students
*Influences development of students’ intellectual and critical skills
*Does anything else you feel makes them an outstanding educator

Eligibility for the Award
Any instructor who taught or is currently teaching in the 2009-10 academic year is eligible for nomination.  Teaching staff of any rank are considered to be instructors: Full/Associate/Assistant Professors, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer.  Teaching Assistants are not eligible for this award.  Nominees must also be published in the ASSU ANTI-CALENDAR.

Nomination Procedure
Candidates may be nominated by Full-time A&S students registered on the St. George campus only.  Please read carefully and then fill out the reverse side of this form.  Nominations must include a typed letter outlining the merits of the instructor and why you feel they deserve to win the teaching award.  Feel free to attach letters of support.

Nomination forms also available at the ASSU Office – SS 1068.

Deadline for nominations: Monday, March 8, 2010

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