The Students-First Award

Faculty (including Adjunct Faculty) and staff | Four awards cumulatively, two for faculty and two for staff members. | One faculty and one staff will be awarded from the Anchorage campus. | One faculty and one staff selected, each from a community campus.

Demonstrates exceptional commitment to advancing a culture of institutional excellence that inspires and enables student achievement and success in two or more of the following aspects:

Criteria

  • Instruction and learning experiences
  • Building and developing curriculum and learning resources
  • Mentoring students
  • Advancing student excellence
  • Advancing teaching excellence
  • Outstanding contribution to student achievement that improves transition to higher education, performance and grades so that most students persist and complete their educational goals
  • Demonstrated innovative and creative approaches in advising, programming, partnerships, outreach and support services that identify and remove barriers to success
  • Level 鈥渁bove & beyond鈥 normal job requirements/functions