• Eligibility
    • All active full-time and part-time faculty members at Tacoma Community College may be nominated.
  • Process
    • All nominations will be anonymized before being shared with the Faculty Awards Committee.
    • The Faculty Awards Committee will use a rubric to review and score the nominations.
  • Criteria
    • Successful nominations will speak specifically to the criteria outlined in the rubric. The committee will be awarding faculty that demonstrate exceptional work in some (or all) of the following areas:
      • Teaching: Nominee combines extensive knowledge and mastery of the subject matter with effectiveness at engaging students, closing gaps between teaching and learning, and supporting student success in the classroom.
      • Scholarship: Nominee generates knowledge with the purpose of sharing and applying it in different forms.
      • Advocacy: Nominee demonstrates direct engagement with societal problems or challenges in order to improve the lives of students and their communities.
      • Activism: Nominee demonstrates direct engagement with societal problems or challenges in order to improve the lives of students and their communities.
      • Outreach: Nominee creates connections between the mission, ideas, and practices of the college and other organizations, groups, specific audiences, or the general public.
      • Diversity: Nominee works to engage, understand, and draw on a variety of perspectives, based on representation of all varied identities and differences (race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, tribe, caste, socio-economic status, thinking and communication styles, etc.).
      • Equity: Nominee engages in activities that increase success for members of historically non-dominant communities.
      • Inclusion: Nominee promotes and invite the contributions and participation of all people, striving to create balance in the face of power differences.
      • Uniqueness: Nominee's highlighted work distinguishes them as exceptional among colleagues and/or within the academic discipline as a whole.

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