Nominations are being accepted for the 2014 James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award given annually to recognize any aspect of excellent instruction (lectures, demonstrations, classroom activities, handling of discussions, individual attention, laboratory instruction, etc.) that contributes to the academic quality of Penn State York. The purpose of the award is to recognize excellence in instruction, not to identify the “most popular” faculty member. The teaching award is named in memory of the late James H. Burness in recognition of his outstanding teaching and service to the campus. Burness died in December 1999.
All faculty are eligible to be nominated except for recipients of the award in the past four years: Harley Hartman and Frank Miller (2010), Charles (Chuck) L. Kennedy and Judith K. McCormick (2011), Sukhdeep Gill and Stephen K. Lentz (2012), Sukhdeep Gill and Stephen K. Lentz (2012), and Anne Vardo Zalik and Christopher Rodkey (2013).Two awards are given: one to a full-time faculty member and one to a part-time faculty member. Do not worry if you are unsure whether a faculty member is full-time or part-time, the Teaching Award Committee will divide the nominations accordingly.This nomination form is for faculty who taught in fall 2013 or are teaching in spring 2014. Be as specific as possible with comments about nominees. When the committee receives something such as "she's a great professor and definitely deserves the award," it doesn't help much in making a decision.
Nominations should be submitted using the online form or the form can be printed off and returned to Cathy Sheaffer in Advising and Career Development in the Main Classroom Building. Please ask that your nomination be placed in Harley Hartman’s mailbox by 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.