Process and Requirements
Eligibility
Every Rice undergraduate student who has taught a Student Taught Course (STC) in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 is eligible for the 2025 STC Teaching Award. This award was designed to recognize the exceptional teaching done by undergraduates at Rice.
Timeline
Tuesday, December 17 — Applications Due
March — Finalists Selected; Candidates Notified
April 29, 2025 — Winners Honored at University Awards Ceremony
Application Form
Applications are due no later than 5:00PM and deadlines are listed under the timeline.
The application must include the following four items to be considered complete:
- An executive summary (no longer than one page; PDF) describing your motivation for teaching the course, explaining how you designed the course, and descriptions of the course assignment and activity/lecture you are including in your application packet. The descriptions of the assignment and activity/lecture should inform the review panel about the purpose of these activities, where they fell during the course, and any highlights describing your students' responses to these materials (such as student feedback or descriptions of the types of things your students produced).
- A course syllabus (PDF)
- An example of a course assignment you created for this course (PPT or PDF)
OR An example of an in class activity or lecture (PPT or PDF)
note: do not append student work for the above
*You may nominate your course more than once. A course can only win once, but a student instructor can win more than once if they teach different courses.
Review of Application Materials
The process for determining the winner of the STC Teaching Award was developed by the CTE’s undergraduate advisory board. The winner is selected by a committee composed of members of the CTE Faculty Fellows. Selection criteria are based on a review of instructional materials and instructor and course evaluations from the Office of the Registrar. The two winners are selected from the self-nominations of courses from spring and fall semesters from the calendar year prior the award ceremony. Both winners can be from the same semester.