CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR TWO TEACHING AWARDS
The Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication invites nominations for two awards: the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award (first-round deadline: December 13, 2024) and the Distinguished Teaching Award (deadline: March 28, 2025). Both awards recognize individual excellence in undergraduate teaching. All nominees must be current members of the AEJMC Advertising Division. The award recipient will receive a $500 prize and will be recognized at the Advertising Division's business meeting during the 2025 AEJMC annual conference in San Francisco, CA.
For more details, please read the calls below:
Call for Nominations: Early Career Teaching Excellence Award
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible, nominees must be a member of the Advertising Division and have completed at least two full academic years at the time of nomination as a full-time faculty member but not more than seven full academic years as a full-time faculty member prior to being nominated. For this award, “full-time faculty member” is defined as an individual serving in a tenure-track, clinical, instructor, professor of practice, or full-time lecturer position.
Note: Time spent teaching during graduate school or as a visiting professor or adjunct instructor does not count toward the years of eligibility. Years teaching as a full-time faculty member at two or more different institutions should be summed (e.g., two years at University A and three years at University B would count as five years total). ADVD Executive Committee members are also eligible to apply for this award.
WHO MAY NOMINATE?
Eligible faculty can self-nominate or be nominated by a faculty member or administrator (e.g., department chair or head, dean) who currently works in the same department, college and/or university as the faculty member being nominated.
OVERVIEW OF SELECTION PROCESS
A two-step process is used to determine the recipient of the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.
The first step requires nomination materials, including a nomination letter (or letter of support if self-nomination), nominee statement of teaching philosophy, and current curriculum vita (see below for additional details.) First-round materials will be reviewed by the division’s Early Career Teaching Excellence Award Selection Committee. A group of two and five finalists will be invited to submit additional materials.
Second-round materials will include a teaching portfolio, a statement of teaching philosophy, a list of courses and numeric student evaluations for the past three years, and two letters of support from former students (Finalists will receive additional details about second-round materials.) The committee will review second-round materials and select the 2025 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award winner.
DESCRIPTION OF FIRST-ROUND MATERIALS
1) A nomination letter or a letter of support for self-nomination.
- Nomination letter. The letter should explain why the nominee should be considered for the award and include examples of how the nominee demonstrates excellence in any or all of the following: subject mastery and competence; classroom management and communication skills; creation of a positive learning environment; dedication to teaching; and assessment. The letter should be no longer than 1,000 words.
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- Letter of support for self-nominations. Self-nominations are accepted. In the event of a self-nomination, a letter of support from a full-time faculty member or administrator with at least three years of experience and who is a member in good standing of the Advertising Division is required. The letter of support should explain why the nominee should be considered for the award and the basis for the recommendation (e.g., nature of the relationship with the nominee, how long the letter writer has known the nominee, etc.). The letter should be no longer than 1,000 words.
2) Teaching Philosophy. The statement should describe the nominee’s teaching philosophy and provide examples of how that philosophy is enacted through in-class activities and/or interactions with students outside of class. The statement should be no longer than three single-spaced pages.
3) Curriculum vita. A current version of the nominee’s curriculum vita should be submitted.
TIMELINE FOR AWARD
- First-round materials must be submitted by Friday, December 13, 2024. Materials should be sent as an email attachment or attachments (Microsoft Word document/s or PDF file/s) to committee chair Juliana Fernandes at juliana@jou.ufl.edu. Please use the subject line: AEJMC ADVD EARLY CAREER TEACHER and direct any questions to the committee chair.
- Materials will be reviewed by the ADVD Teaching Awards Committee.
- Invitations to submit second-round materials will be sent on or about Friday, February 7, 2025.
- Second-round materials must be submitted by Friday, March 28, 2025.
- Materials will be reviewed by the ADVD Teaching Award Committee.
- The winner will be notified on or about Thursday, May 15, 2025, and announced publicly at the Advertising Division business meeting at the AEJMC annual conference.
Call for Nominations: Distinguished Teaching Award
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible, a nominee must be a member of the Advertising Division and have at least seven years of teaching experience as a full-time faculty member. For this award, “full-time faculty member” is defined as an individual serving in a tenure-track, clinical, instructor, professor of practice, or full-time lecturer position.
Note: Time spent teaching during graduate school or as a visiting professor or adjunct instructor does not count toward the years of eligibility. Years teaching as a full-time faculty member at two or more different institutions should be summed (e.g., two years at University A and three years at University B would count as five years total). ADVD Executive Committee members are also eligible to apply for this award.
WHO MAY NOMINATE?
Eligible faculty can self-nominate or be nominated by a faculty member or administrator (e.g., department chair or head, dean) who currently works in the same department, college and/or university as the faculty member being nominated.
OVERVIEW OF SELECTION PROCESS
A simplified process for the Distinguished Teaching Award is continuously used this year to encourage more applications. The application process will be one step as follows:
1) A nomination letter or a letter of support for self-nomination.
- Nomination letter. The letter should explain why the nominee should be considered for the award and include examples of how the nominee demonstrates excellence in any or all of the following: subject mastery and competence; classroom management and communication skills; creation of a positive learning environment; dedication to teaching; and assessment. The letter should be no longer than 1,000 words.
OR
- Letter of support for self-nominations. Self-nominations are accepted. In the event of a self-nomination, a letter of support from a full-time faculty member or administrator with at least three years of experience and who is a member in good standing of the Advertising Division is required. The letter of support should explain why the nominee should be considered for the award and the basis for the recommendation (e.g., nature of the relationship with the nominee, how long the letter writer has known the nominee, etc.). The letter should be no longer than 1,000 words.
2) Teaching Philosophy. The nominee should describe one’s teaching philosophy and provide examples of how that philosophy is enacted through in-class activities and/or interactions with students outside of class. The statement should be no longer than two single-spaced pages. Note: Self-nominations can combine their statement of teaching philosophy within their self-nomination letter.
3) In the case of self-nomination, please include a letter of recommendation from a colleague. A letter of recommendation from a dean, provost, president or colleague familiar with the nominee’s success in the classroom. This letter should indicate the impact the nominee has on their program and students.
4) Two letters from students/former students. Two separate letters from students indicating the impact the nominee has had on their learning, growth, and career.
5) Curriculum vita. A current version of the nominee’s curriculum vita should be submitted.
TIMELINE FOR AWARD
- Materials must be submitted by Friday, March 28, 2025. Materials should be sent as an email attachment or attachments (Microsoft Word document/s or PDF file/s) to committee chair Juliana Fernandes at juliana@jou.ufl.edu. Please use the subject line: AEJMC ADVD DISTINGUISHED TEACHER and direct any questions to the committee chair.
- Materials will be reviewed by the Advertising Division Teaching Award Committee.
- The winner will be notified on or about Thursday, May 15, 2025, and announced publicly at Advertising Division business meeting at the AEJMC annual conference.
Criteria for Selection
While the committee recognizes there is no single item or set of items that demonstrate exemplary teaching, the following list will be used as a guide as the committee reviews each nomination:
- Subject mastery and competence. Includes items such as demonstrating a comprehensive command of the subject matter; continuous growth in the field; currency with trends, challenges and controversies in the field.
- Classroom management and communication skills. Includes items such as organizing and presenting course material in a coherent manner; implementing effective teaching methods and developing innovative curricular materials; displaying enthusiasm and vitality in the classroom.
- Creation of a positive learning environment. Includes items such as ability to inspire students to engage in reflective analysis and critical thinking; encouraging intellectual curiosity; demonstrating respect for students.
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA). Integrating and promoting IDEA inside and outside the classroom.
- Dedication to teaching. Includes items such as engaging in continuous efforts to evaluate and improve one’s own teaching; developing new courses and/or redesigning existing courses to incorporate new knowledge, methods and/or materials; inspiring and assisting colleagues to increase their teaching effectiveness.
- Assessment. Includes items that demonstrate student learning success inside and outside the classroom.
2025 Teaching Award Selection Committee
- Juliana Fernandes (University of Florida), Committee Chair; Advertising Division Teaching and Pedagogy Chair
- Mengtian (Montina) Jiang (University of Kentucky), recipient of the 2024 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award
- Yang Feng (University of Florida), recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award
- Juan Mundel (Michigan State University), recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award
- Shanshan Lou (Appalachian State University), former Advertising Division Teaching and Pedagogy Chair
