NYU Shanghai Teaching Excellence Award

All full-time faculty who have taught for at least two semesters at NYU Shanghai are eligible for the award. Faculty members are not eligible to receive the award more than once in any five-year period.

Award recipients are able to:

• Impact student learning and growth:
  • Nurture original, rigorous, critical thinking in students through classroom instruction and assignments.
  • Help students lead lives of discovery, satisfaction, and meaningful contribution.
  • Demonstrate enthusiasm for subject matter and to convey this enthusiasm to students.
  • Successfully develop students' mastery of a subject.
  • Mentor students beyond the classroom.
• Create a diverse and inclusive classroom:
  • Communicate to a diverse group of students.
  • Display and cultivate intercultural competency in teaching settings.
• Practice innovative teaching:
  • Create new and engaging course materials, assignments, and other related curricular development materials.
  • Develop new courses or significantly revise existing courses.
  • Incorporate technology in the classroom to enhance learning outcomes.
• Practice self-reflective teaching:
  • Commit to ongoing professional development as it relates to teaching.
  • Demonstrate an effort to share teaching practices and innovations with the larger community.

Nomination

The nomination process opens each fall semester and remains open through early spring. Both students and faculty are invited to submit their nominations. Student nominations should discuss specific ways the faculty member has impacted learning, development, and growth. Faculty nominating their colleagues should indicate how they have observed, benefited from, or experienced the nominee’s teaching. 

The NYU Shanghai TEA Nomination Form opens around December every year. 

TEA Nomination Form 

Award Committee

Each year the Provost forms a committee of four faculty members and two student representatives spanning various disciplines and majors. The committee reviews teaching materials submitted in support of the nominees, selects a set of finalists, and finally recommends awardees to the Provost.

Committee for AY 23/24