The Office of the Provost and the U of A Teaching Academy are pleased to issue the call for proposals for the 2024 Daniel E. Ferritor Award for Departmental Excellence in Teaching. The award is named in honor of Daniel E. Ferritor, who served as chancellor of the U of A from 1986 to 1997 and as interim chancellor in 2015. He also founded the Teaching Academy in 1988. 

The annual award honors the academic unit that best exemplifies a sustained, department-wide commitment to teaching excellence for all students. The winning department will receive $10,000 and a trophy, as well as having the unit name placed on a traveling university plaque housed in that department for one year. 

Complete application instructions and evaluation criteria are posted on the Office for Faculty Affairs website. Departmental applications are due no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30. The formal presentation of the award will be made in late spring. An informational session to discuss how to submit the first phase of the application will be held via Zoom on September 14 from 2 to 3 p.m. The meeting can be accessed using the following link, meeting ID and passcode:

• https://uark.zoom.us/j/82027315922?pwd=cEFndklTTzgvS0hMbkEzZjJOODBLUT09
• Meeting ID: 820 2731 5922
• Passcode: #t97TPzE

Past winners of the Ferritor Departmental Award include the Department of History (2017), the Department of Industrial Engineering (2018), the School of Social Work (2019), the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing (2020), the Department of Sociology and Criminology (2021), the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation (2022), and the School of Human Environmental Science (2023). 

For additional information, please contact Anna Zajicek, vice provost for faculty affairs, at facdev@uark.edu or Paul Calleja, president, Teaching Academy, at pcallej@uark.edu.