Nominee's Department:

To facilitate the nomination process, members of the Faculty Development Committee offer the opportunity to submit an electronic nomination. The completion of this form serves as a nomination letter for this year’s candidates for the Ralph A. Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching. As you provide information about the nominee’s qualifications, to the best of your knowledge, please respond to each of the following questions:

The Ralph A. Ciancio Award honors a faculty member for his or her record of excellence in teaching. What brings you to nominate this faculty colleague for this special recognition?

What source(s) of information inform your nomination (e.g., occasions on which you joined the nominee’s class or lab, occasions on which you heard the nominee speak about teaching and/or undergraduate education, the reading of the nominee's course evaluations and related supporting material, mentoring about teaching excellence and accomplishment that you may have received from the nominee)? In the process, please speak to the ways in which these sources of information provide evidence that demonstrates the nominee’s excellence in teaching according to the guidelines set forth in the Skidmore Faculty Handbook (“Evaluative Criteria for Continued Service").

To provide further elaboration on the basis for your nomination, where appropriate or relevant, please add further comments on the nominee’s exemplary performance in such areas as these: teaching at different levels of the curriculum; developing lectures; facilitating discussion in flexible ways, appropriate to students’ background; stimulating and challenging students to learn and to interact with the substance of course material; interacting with students in the classroom, lab, studio, office, and beyond; mentoring students in their professional development; mentoring other faculty; helping to shape the curriculum.

Are there any other comments that you would like to offer that are not captured by the preceding questions?

Signature: By typing your name in the space provided, the Faculty Development Committee will accept this as a fully-signed document.

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at X5705.

Page maintained by Debra Peterson