Presidential Teaching Excellence Award

The Presidential Teaching Excellence Award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers. Teaching excellence, manifested in various ways, brings significant and valuable results for students and their success.

Up to 12 awards may be given each year to tenure-track, non-tenure track, instructor and adjunct faculty members. Recipients receive a $5,000 cash award (less benefits and withholding taxes) or $5,000 in unrestricted support (any equipment purchased as support becomes the property of WSU).

Nomination Process & Timeline

Members of the Weber State community (students, faculty, staff and administrators) are eligible to nominate a faculty member for a Presidential Teaching Excellence Award. Nominators should complete and submit the online form below, describing what makes the faculty member an outstanding teacher. Weber State’s president will make the final selection of recipients.

The call for nominations will open each year on Oct. 1 and close on Nov. 15. Recipients will be notified by Jan. 31 and recognized at the annual Faculty Symposium & Celebration held during the spring semester.

Note: Faculty are eligible to receive this award each year.

Nomination Form

Recipients

2023-2024

  • Nazneen Ahmad - Economics
  • Tariq Arif - Mechanical Engineering
  • Justin Burr - Health Sciences
  • Ryan Cain - Teacher Education
  • Nicola Corbin - Communications
  • London Draper Lowe - Nursing
  • Valerie Gooder - Nursing
  • Bridget Hilbig - Botany & Plant Ecology
  • Aubrey Jones - World Languages & Cultures
  • Shannon McGillivray - Psychological Science
  • Jean Norman - Communications
  • Matthew Thue - Business Administration & Marketing

2022-2023

  • Daniel Clark - Microbiology
  • Brian Cottle - Health Administrative Services
  • Andrea Garavito Martinez - Teacher Education
  • Jessica Greenberg - Performing Arts
  • Andrew Keinsley - Economics
  • John Kelly - Automotive
  • Diane Leggett-Fife - Nursing
  • Louise Moulding - Teacher Education
  • Melissa Neville-Norton - Nursing
  • Kristin Rabosky - Physics
  • Kathryn Sperry - Psychological Services
  • Sarah Vause - English

2021-2022

  • Tomono Adachi - Foreign Language
  • Melina Alexander - Teacher Education
  • Linda Duhadway - Computer Science
  • Ryan Dunn - Child & Family Studies
  • Carrie Jeffrey - Nursing
  • Jean Kapenda - Criminal Justice
  • Loisanne Kattelman - Accounting
  • Álvaro La Parra-Pérez - Economics
  • Brad Marden - Health Sciences
  • Jonathan Marshall - Zoology
  • Connie Merrill - Nursing
  • Aminda O'Hare - Neuropsychology-Neuroscience

2020-2021

  • Clint Amos - Business Administration
  • Elizabeth Balgord - Geosciences
  • Kristy Baron - Nursing
  • George Comber - Manufacturing & Systems Engineering
  • Jenny Kokai - Performing Arts
  • Cory Moss - Health Professions
  • Craig Oberg - Microbiology
  • Jose Otero - English
  • Gavin Roberts - Economics
  • Cor Segovia-Tadehara - Social Work
  • Stephanie Speicher - Teacher Education
  • Jamie Wankier Randles - Nursing

2019-2020

  • Tamara Goldbogen - Performing Arts/Honors
  • Marianna Norseth - Foreign Language
  • Will Pollett - English
  • Tressa Quale - Nursing
  • Sally Cantwell - Nursing
  • Spencer Hilton - School of Computing
  • David Aguilar-Alvarez - Nutrition
  • Brandon Koford - Economics
  • Brandon Burnett - Chemistry
  • Brian Chung - Zoology
  • Kristina Moleni - Social Work
  • Gene Sessions - History

2018-2019

  • Anthony Allred - Business Administration
  • Tim Border - Professional Sales
  • Carie Frantz - Earth & Environmental Sciences
  • Matthew Gnagey - Economics
  • Catherine Harmston - Nursing
  • Lisa Hopkins - Accounting & Taxation
  • Emily Peterson - English
  • Elizabeth Rocha - Nursing
  • Sarah Steimel - Communication
  • Natalie Williams - Teacher Education
  • Stephanie Wolfe - Political Science
  • James Zagrodnik - Health, Physical Education & Recreation