CETL Teaching Awards

CETL and the Faculty Development Committee collaborated in 2022-23 to launch CETL teaching awards to recognize the contributions of educators on our campus. 

These awards seek to recognize the excellence in teaching that happens on our campus.  The 2025-2026 winners were:

• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching - Recognizes faculty who are making an exceptional impact on teaching. This award recognizes faculty who emphasize the importance the University places upon teaching by investing heavily in this most student-centered activity. We must recognize their work to improve the teaching and learning environment on campus.

• Excellence in Graduate Teaching - Recognizes faculty who are making an exceptional impact on teaching. This award recognizes faculty who emphasize the importance the University places upon teaching by investing heavily in this most student-centered activity. We must recognize their work to improve the teaching and learning environment on campus.

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Excellence - Recognizes faculty who systematically investigate questions related to student learning and the conditions under which it occurs to improve outcomes. This award recognizes faculty who emphasize the importance the University places upon teaching by investing heavily in this most student-centered activity. We must recognize their work to improve the teaching and learning environment on campus. 

• Excellence in Adjunct Teaching
   - Candidates create engaging lessons that advance racial equity and social justice in their classrooms. The candidate uses a variety of curriculum materials and strategies to support learning. Adjunct Teaching Excellence recognizes contingent faculty who are making an exceptional impact on teaching. This award recognizes contingent faculty who emphasize the University's importance of teaching by investing heavily in this most student-centered activity. We must recognize their work to improve the teaching and learning environment on campus.

• Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching - Graduate teaching assistants make significant contributions to teaching and learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Each academic year, the University recognizes the best, brightest, and most industrious of Minnesota State University, Mankato's graduate teaching assistants for their work as instructors in the classroom and laboratory.