Charles Deering McCormick Professor/Lecturer/Clinical Professor/Professor of Instruction
Award details
Awarded: annually
Award Term:
- 3 years (term commences at the start of the next academic year)
- Recipients become Fellows of the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching.
Award Amounts:
- $7,000 to recipient (awarded annually as a salary supplement at the beginning of each year of the award term)
- $3,000 for professional development (awarded annually at the beginning of each year of the award term to support the hiring of assistants, research expenses, attendance at professional meetings, and related activities)
- $3,000 to the recipient's home department (a one-time award to support departmental activities that enhance undergraduate education, broadly construed)
Eligibility
- Nominees for the Professorship must be full-time tenured faculty.
- Nominees for the Lectureship/Clinical Professorship/Professorship of Instruction must be full time faculty members. Receipt of the Lectureship/Clinical Professorship/Professorship of Instruction shall be contingent upon the faculty member’s continued employment at Northwestern University for the full duration of the award term.
- All nominees must be in at least their fifth year at Northwestern at the time of nomination.
Nomination and selection
- The Dean makes nominations to the Provost, so please do not submit nominations directly to the Provost's Office. Chairpersons, program directors, and other colleagues may nominate candidates to the Dean. Information about these awards and the materials required to nominate candidates will be e-mailed to all department chairs, program directors, department assistants, and program assistants in early December. For complete details on this award, see http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/faculty-honors/university-teaching-awards/about-the-awards.html.
- The nominations will be reviewed by a committee chaired by the Provost and made up of senior faculty members and administrators. The selection committee will submit its recommendations to the President. Appointments to McCormick Professorships/Lectureships/Clinical Professorships will be made by the President, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees.
- The individual professorships/lectureships/clinical professorships shall be awarded without regard to the school affiliation of the faculty member.
- The deadline for receipt of materials in the Dean's Office is February 15th (if February 15th falls on a weekend, the due date is the following Monday).
- Two PDF files of the nomination materials for each candidate should be emailed to Elizabeth Kim.
The first PDF file (labeled Part 1) should consist of items 1-6 below.
1. Cover page indicating the nominee, their position, department, and school as well as the contents of the nomination materials. Please indicate if the nominee is a repeat applicant, and if possible, please set internal links for each numbered item below. (instructions here).
2. Nomination letter from the school dean or the department chair. (The letter should not be longer than three pages.)
3. Nominee's statement setting forth their goals as a teacher along with an assessment of success in meeting those goals. (The statement should not be longer than three pages.)
4. Letters from no more than four currently enrolled undergraduate students and no more than two students who have graduated but who studied under the nominee as undergraduates. These letters should describe the ways in which the nominee's teaching has significantly facilitated student learning.
5. A list of all courses taught from Winter 2021 through Fall 2023 along with a table including the summary data from CTECs for each course listed. You can download the table template here.
6. Abbreviated current CV (no more than six pages).
The second PDF file (labeled Part 2) should consist of items 7-8.
7. Syllabi from all courses taught from Winter 2021 through Fall 2023.
8. Instructor CTECs from all courses taught Winter 2021 through Fall 2023.
- Please feel free to address questions or comments to Elizabeth Kim, Assistant Dean for Faculty Advancement.