Faculty Awards and Recognitions
Faculty Awards
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) honors faculty who exemplify deep
and broad commitment, skill, effectiveness, impact and leadership in teaching and
scholarship.
Outstanding Mentoring
The CAS Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentoring recognizes one faculty member for
excellence in the mentorship of undergraduate and/or graduate students. This award
recognizes contributions to students’ professional and personal development through
guidance, support, and motivation for students to pursue their interests and passions
while navigating personal circumstances.
Early Career Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence
The CAS Early Career Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence recognizes one outstanding
early career faculty member from each of the College’s three pillars: Arts & Humanities,
Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Math & Sciences. The award recognizes outstanding
scholarly, research, and/or performance achievements that are innovative and demonstrate
broad impact and a clear research trajectory.
Wise-Diggs-Berry
Endowed Arts Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence
The CAS Wise-Diggs-Berry Endowed Arts Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence honors
teaching excellence in and out of the classroom in the visual, performance, or written
arts at Oklahoma State University. The recipient must demonstrate teaching excellence
in the Department of English, Music, Theatre or Art, Graphic Design, and Art History.
Evidence for teaching excellence in the arts may include student evaluations, successfully
teaching courses in the arts, and supporting students’ community engagement in the
arts.
Community Engagement
The CAS Community Engagement Award recognizes excellence in community-engaged activities
that, in line with guidelines of the Carnegie Foundation, “reflect collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger
communities (local, regional, state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial
exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity."
The award consists of a cash prize and a plaque.
Excellence in General Education Teaching
The CAS Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching is presented each fall
at the CAS Convocation to faculty who have regularly taught lower‐division general
education courses and are exceptional teachers of those courses. Exceptional teaching
is defined as creativity and excellence in pedagogy alongside student success in learning.
The award includes a plaque and a $1,000 base salary increase. Two awards are presented
each year: one for tenure‐track or tenured faculty and one for non-tenure-track faculty.
Holistic Science Prize
Endowed by mathematics Professor Emeritus Hermann Burchard, this prize recognizes
outstanding achievements in the College of Arts and Sciences in multidisciplinary,
interdisciplinary or holistic academic research.