AGHE Awards - Rising Star Early Career Faculty Award
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Rising Star Early Career Faculty Award
Purpose of the Award
The AGHE Rising Star Early Career Faculty Award recognizes new faculty whose teaching and/or leadership stands out as impactful and innovative. The AGHE Rising Star Early Career Faculty Awardee will provide a lecture at the GSA Annual Meeting.
Note: Those nominated must be willing and able to attend the GSA Annual Meeting and present a lecture during the meeting.
Submission Period
Spring 2024
Eligibility Criteria
- Full-time faculty members at an AGHE affiliated institution or GSA member with AGHE designated as a primary or secondary section
- Maximum of five years (at the nomination submission due date) post degree-award teaching experience
Required Nomination Packet Materials
- A single nomination letter signed by at least 3 supporters that should include the following:
- the purpose and qualifications of the AGHE Rising Star Early Career Faculty Nominee
- emphasize teaching and/or leadership, rather than research, professional activity, or public service (unless those activities bear directly on teaching excellence)
- A current Curriculum Vitae
Nature of the Award
The recipient receives a framed certificate and delivers a lecture at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Past Recipients
2022 M. Aaron Guest | Arizona State University
2021 Candace S. Brown | University of North Carolina, Charlotte
2020 Laurinda Reynolds | American River College
2019 Katarina Felsted | University of Utah
2018 Eric C. Schoenmakers | Fontys University of Applied Sciences
2017 Özgür Arun | Akdeniz University
2016 Pamela Pitman Brown | Winston-Salem State University
2015 Tina M. Kruger | Indiana State University
