Faculty Awards

Pursuing excellence in teaching, professional life, and service to the College are all aspects of faculty life at Roanoke College, and each spring the Dean acknowledges outstanding faculty members through awards given in these different areas. 

Nominations for the 2024-2025 awards (teaching, professional life, and service) will be accepted through Friday, March 14, 2025. Submit your nominations at Dean's Exemplary Award Nomination Form.

The Dean’s Exemplary Teaching Award recognizes teaching that not only effectively helps students to learn the content and skills of one’s discipline, but also helps students develop as whole persons and prepare for lives of purpose and meaning.  Although such teaching may take many forms, it is clearly demonstrated through an instructor’s design and implementation of a well-organized plan for learning, incorporation of new knowledge and emerging methodologies, engagement of students through activities and assignments, creation of a positive learning environment, high expectations, clear and fair assessment of student work, and ever evolving adaptation of pedagogy to communicate more effectively to each generation of students.

The Dean’s Exemplary Professional Life Award recognizes outstanding professional accomplishments. Every faculty member belongs to both a professional community of scholars and to the community of scholars and students at Roanoke College, which is essential to the intellectual vibrancy of our campus. Engagement in professional development activities and active involvement in professional organizations ideally enhances the role of a faculty member as a teacher-scholar by infusing the faculty member’s teaching with the latest developments in the field. Moreover, a faculty member’s scholarly work models for students the habits of intellectual inquiry and the excitement of discovery. Professional life may encompass the scholarship of teaching and learning as well as specialized questions of disciplinary content. 

The Dean’s Exemplary Service Award recognizes outstanding faculty service – at Roanoke College and/or in the larger community – in ways that advance the mission and strategic plan of the College. Professional service may involve many factors,  such as leadership of initiatives; the number, quality, range or focus of service activities; honors or awards received from off-campus organizations; and the time invested. 

Join with us in congratulating recipients of these awards: