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Dr. Rudolf Brutocao Award for Distinguished Teaching   

Nomination deadline for 2025-26 Academic Year: May 11, 2026

The Dr. Rudolf Brutocao Award for Distinguished Teaching recognizes faculty who have fulfilled the promise shown in their earlier years by maintaining, and even growing further, in their capabilities in the classroom and other pedagogic activities. These faculty are outstanding year-after-year for a period of 8-15 years. Through their efforts and example, they improve the quality of education at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ not just for their own students but also for their departments and for the University community as a whole.

Impactful teaching within their classrooms and programs may be recognized by:

• Inventive, spirited, creative approaches to in-class and out-of-class assignments, curricula, and program design;
• Remarkable initiative, energy, innovation and/or ongoing evolution of their teaching methods;
• Widespread appreciation by their students, including an awareness that the particular classes taught by this faculty member are special, highly sought and valuable;
• Assessment is fair, consistent, and contributes to the students’ learning.
• A stellar reputation; these awardees are held in high regard by other faculty;
• Demonstrated dedication to the teaching profession, and to the students themselves.

All continuing undergraduate faculty with 8-15 years of full-time undergraduate teaching are eligible for this award. Nominated faculty who do not win will remain eligible and nomination materials will be preserved in faculty award files for three years. Materials received for one award may support nominations across teaching awards.

Nomination and Selection Process

Nominations will be solicited from undergraduate students, recent alumni, and faculty each spring. The award selection committee –comprised of two undergraduate students, two alumni, and at least one previous recipient of each of the teaching awards, with the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence as ex officio– will review nomination letters received through the single teaching award submission portal, combined with any nomination letters received in the past three years, and evaluate them against the award criteria to identify their recommended award recipient.  Again, there is one award, and there should only be one recipient, except in extraordinary circumstances.