February 28, 2006

M E M O R A N D U M

TO: Academic Deans, Morgantown Campus

FROM: C. B. Wilson

Associate Provost

for Academic Personnel

RE: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

U. S. Professors of the Year Program (formerly, CASE

Professor of the Year)

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is

requesting nominations for The Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching 2006 U. S. Professors of the Year Program.

A copy of the nomination form and some explanatory information is

attached. Please note that nominees must teach at the undergraduate

level.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching will name

winners in four national award categories, as follows: Doctoral and

Research Universities; Master's Universities and Colleges;

Baccalaureate Colleges; and Community Colleges. A Professor of the

Year in each state will also be selected. The same nomination form is

used to consider a faculty member for both national and state awards.

No additional or different information is required to be considered for the

state award.

As was the case last year, institutions have been invited to nominate

individuals who have been previous state winners; they could be in

continuing contention for the national award. However, for state winners

prior to 2002, it would probably be useful to prepare a completely fresh

dossier, including a new personal statement and new letters.

As you know, West Virginia University faculty members have been

honored in fifteen of the last eighteen years through this program. Past

recipients have been Sophia Peterson (1987), Carl Rotter (1988),

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Judith Stitzel (1989), Robert DiClerico (1990), Pat Rice (1991), Jack

Hammersmith (1992), Richard Turton (1993), Gail Galloway Adams

(1994), Bernard Allen (WVU-P, 1996), Christine Martin (1998), James

Harms (1999), John J. Renton (2001), Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf (2002),

Laura Brady (2004) and Carolyn Atkins (2005).

If the 2006 West Virginia Professor of the year is from West Virginia

University – Morgantown, the Provost’s Office will provide an award of

$1,000.

No more than three nominations may be made by West Virginia

University (Morgantown). If you or your colleagues plan to nominate a

faculty member, please notify Wendy Spaw by Thursday, March 23.

Such notification will help assure that individuals working on nomination

dossiers can be confident that their work will be forwarded.

The Provost’s Office would also like to review the nomination dossiers. If

more than three nominations come forward, they will be screened in this

office to determine the finalists. Please forward those dossiers to me

by Monday, April 10 so they may be reviewed and forwarded in time to

meet the April 21 deadline. This office will serve as the "official"

nominator, and will pay the entry fee for each nomination.

You will note from the materials that on-line submission of the

nomination form and supplementary materials is possible. Please

ignore that option. Instead, please forward hard copy of all materials to

our office. We will place all our nominations on-line simultaneously, and

send hard copy of the supplementary materials directly to the program.

CBW/wjs

cc: David C. Hardesty, Jr.

Gerald E. Lang

Robert D'Alessandri

Regional Campus Presidents

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