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William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

History

The W.T. Kemper Awards for Teaching Excellence recognizes outstanding KU teachers and advisers chosen by a selection committee. The initial program, although now extended another 10 years, was established as a 10-year program and the awards were established by a $500,000 fund from the William T. Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank, Trustee, and $500,000 in matching funds from the KU Endowment Association. This award is intended to honor faculty who have demonstrated outstanding teaching and advising. For this award, teaching and advising are to be considered in their broadest senses. Teaching may be defined to include work with students at any level and in a wide variety of settings in which instructional activity occurs at a comprehensive university. Evidence of superior advising should illustrate the nominee’s concern for student development beyond the normal expectations for advising held for each faculty member at this institution. Deadline for nominations is in April each year with presentations are made by the Chancellor at a class session.

Criteria/Eligibility

  • Full time KU faculty who have completed a minimum of 3 years in a tenured or tenure-track position.
  • Past winners not eligible again for five years.
  • All nomination materials must follow the format outlined below.

Nomination Materials Required (by March)

  • Nominee’s statement outlining instructional and advising goals and strategies (2 page maximum)
  • CV
  • List of courses taught and other instructional and advising activities for last 5 years.
  • Material evaluating instruction, advising, and public service
  • Support letters from Chair and/or Dean
  • Up to 6 additional support letters.

Selection

  • Colleagues, students, departments, schools/colleges, or recognized campus organizations may nominate individuals for the Kemper Fellowships. Selection committee will limit evaluation of the nominee’s teaching records to the preceding five years.
  • Names are recommended by the committee for approval to The School of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Executive Vice Chancellor.
  • Final approval by the Chancellor.

Prize & Presentation

  • $5,000 (4 slots available for KUMC each year)
  • Presentation of Award is during a class session.

Required Materials --
MATERIALS NOT PREPARED IN THIS MANNER WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

The nominator or a person chosen by the nominator, working with the nominee, is responsible for assembling the required material. The length of the nomination materials is not of primary importance.

  • The nominee must provide in his/her own words a statement explicitly outlining his/her instructional and advising goals and strategies. This statement must not exceed two double-spaced pages.
  • A concise rιsumι (not to exceed two pages).
  • A listing of courses taught and the number of students in each, and other instructional and advising activities during the preceding five years (not to exceed two pages).
  • Materials evaluating instruction, advising, and public service. This section may include summaries of student surveys, evaluations of teaching effectiveness by peers, results of assessment of student learning, or other relevant methods of evaluation over the past five years. Numerical data from student teaching evaluations are requested by the selection committee. Please include the departmental or school mean as an aid in considering the nominee's numerical data when such data are available. Do not include copies of individual student or course forms/sheets. Summaries and selected comments may be included.
  • Letters from the chair and/or dean are required. No more than six additional letters of support from colleagues, staff members, and current or former students may be included. Letters from colleagues and former students are particularly useful instruments for conveying the quality of a nominee's advising strengths and public service activities.
  • The membership of the Selection Committee will be kept anonymous.

Nominations and all materials should be sent to:

The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies
Attention: Valarie Biscanin, vbiscani@kumc.edu
Office of Academic Affairs
Mail Stop 1040, 5015 Wescoe.

Deadline is in APRIL each year.
Direct all questions to: Valarie Biscanin, vbiscani@kumc.edu

List of Previous Awardees

2006
James L. Fishback, M.D., Course Director/Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Garold O. Minns, M.D., Professor, Internal Medicine and Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs - School of Medicine-Wichita
Steven W. Stites, M.D., Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program

2005
Robert H. Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management
Scott Moser, M.D., Associate Professor, Family & Community Medicine- Wichita
Cynthia Teel, Ph.D., R.N., Assistant Dean/Associate Professor, SON

2004
Winifred (Winnie) Dunn, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA, Professor /Chairperson, Occupational Therapy Education
Stephen D. Smith, M.D., Professor, Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology
Kimberly J. (Kim) Templeton, M.D., Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery
Anne D. Walling, M.B. ChB, Associate Dean, Faculty Development – Wichita; Professor, Family and Community Medicine - Wichita

2003
K. Allen A. Greiner, M.D., Instructor, Family Medicine
Robert Klein, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Professional Development and Faculty Affairs; Professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Amy O'Brien-Ladner, M.D., Division Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Judith E. Widen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hearing and Speech

2002
Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, M.D., Professor and Chair, Preventative Medicine
Tomas L. Griebling, M.D., Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Urology
Mike Oszko, Pharm.D, Associate Professor, Pharmacy School
Thomas L. (Tom) Pazdernik, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics

2001
George M. Helmkamp, Jr., PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Patricia A. Howard, Pharm D R.Ph., Professor and Vice Chair, Pharmacy School
Sue A. Popkess-Vawter, R.N., Ph.D., Professor, School of Nursing Faculty
Daniel Swagerty, M.D., M.PH, Associate Director, Aging, Center on (Landon Center on Aging);
Associate Professor, Family Medicine

2000
Diane K. Boyle, RN, Ph.D. – School of Nursing Faculty
Michael J. Burke, M.D., Ph.D. – Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences – Wichita
Lawrence L. Pelletier, M.D. – Internal Medicine – Wichita
Mary K. Zimmerman, Ph.D. – Health Policy and Management

1999
James L. Fishback, M.D. – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vincent H. Gattone, II, Ph.D. – Anatomy and Cell Biology
William H. Peery, M.D. – Internal Medicine – Wichita
Anita L. Wingate, Ph.D. – School of Nursing

1998
George C. Enders, Ph.D. – Anatomy and Cell Biology
Doren D. Fredrickson, M.D., Ph.D. – Preventive Medicine – Wichita
Leone Mattioli, M.D. – Pediatrics
Allen B. Rawitch, Ph.D. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

1997
Mary Carpenter, Ph.D. – Hearing and Speech
Daniel R. Hinthorn, M.D. – Infectious Diseases
Peter G. Smith, Ph.D. – Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Roma Lee Taunton, Ph.D. – School of Nursing

1996
Cheng Cho, M.D. – Pediatrics
Robert M. Klein, Ph.D. – Anatomy and Cell Biology
Norman L. Martin, M.D. – Radiology
George Varghese, M.D. – Rehabilitation Medicine

For more information contact Valerie Biscanin, Office of Academic Affairs (8-1258).