Teaching Awards

Over 150 teaching awards with an approximate cash value of $200,000 are offered annually at The University of Texas at Austin. This site includes a brief description of the university-wide, college, school, departmental, and Ex-Student's Association awards and lists of past recipients.

University-Wide Teaching Awards

Academy of Distinguished Teachers Award
William David Blunk Memorial Professorship
Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award
Dad's Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships
Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship
Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Excellence Award
IITAP - Innovative Instructional Technology Award Program
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Professors of the Year Award
Minnie Stevens PIPER Foundation Teaching Award

Ex-Students' Association

Texas Excellence Teaching Awards

College/School and Departmental Teaching Awards

Architecture

• Annual Award for Outstanding Teacher

Business Administration

• Joe D. Beasley Teaching Excellence Award
• College of Business Administration Foundation Advisory Council Award for Teaching Innovation
• College of Business Administration Foundation Award for Excellence in Education
• Excellence in Education Award
• Fred Moore Assistant Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence
• Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Teaching Excellence Award
• Jack C. Taylor Teaching Excellence Award
• Trammell College of Businesss Administration (CBA) Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors
• Fawn and Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award for Executive Education

Communication

• Teaching Excellence Award of the College of Communication Foundation Advisory Council

Education

• Dean's Distinguished Faculty Award
• Dean's Distinguised Teaching Award

Engineering

• Engineering Foundation Faculty Award (discontinued)
• Engineering Foundation Awards for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor
• Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching

Departmental awards:

• Aerospace Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
• Biomedical Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
• Chemical Engineering Departmental Teaching Award (discontinued)
• Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
• Mechanical Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
• Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
  

Fine Arts

• College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award
• Department/School Teaching Excellence Awards
• Teaching Excellence Award (discontinued)
• University Co-op Fine Arts Award

Graduate Studies

• Award for Outstanding Teaching in Graduate Studies

LBJ School of Public Affairs

• LBJ Foundation Excellence Award (discontinued)

Liberal Arts

• Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award
• Maxine Hairston Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Division of Rhetoric and Composition)
• Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Excellence Award (Plan II Honors Program)
• Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence

Natural Sciences

• Board of Visitors Teaching Award - Department of Astronomy
• College of Natural Sciences Foundation Advisory Council Teaching Excellence Award
• Department of Chemistry Faraday Fellowship Award for Teaching Excellence
• Department of Chemistry Henze Teaching Excellence Awards
• Department of Chemistry Welch Teaching Awards
• Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation Faculty Excellence Awards
• Carolyn G. & G. Moses Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award
• The President's Associates Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Mathematics
• The Katherine Ross Richards Centennial Fellowship in Nutrition
• The Elizabeth Tarpley Regents' Fellowship in Textiles and Clothing
• Teaching Excellence in Human Ecology

Nursing

• Teaching Excellence Award

Pharmacy

• Pharmacy Texas Excellence Teaching Award (TETA)

Social Work

• Lora Lee Pederson Teaching Award in the School of Social Work