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Outstanding Faculty

Date: 2022-07-7
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Outstanding Teaching Faculty

1) Introduction:

The NTU Guidelines for the Selection and Awarding of Outstanding Teaching Faculty are designed to give encouragement to full-time instructors who have demonstrated exceptional teaching skills and endorse their tireless dedication and contributions in the field of education. Awards are presented in the two categories of Distinguished Teaching and Outstanding Teaching. Recipients are publicly recognized and presented with certificates of commendation as well as monetary awards. The monetary awards are equivalent to fixed points multiplied by the monetary equivalent of each point. The fixed points for Distinguished Teaching monetary awards are 100 points, and the fixed points for Outstanding Teaching monetary awards are 20 points.

The monetary equivalent of each point is determined by the NTU president on an annual basis.

2) Eligibility:

All current full-time (including jointly-appointed) and project-appointed faculty members who have taught at NTU for two years or more are eligible for selection. However, as the Distinguished Teaching Awards are granted for a period of five years, recipients may not be recommended again within five years after receiving the award. Also, instructors who have earned Distinguished Teaching Awards twice since qualifying as full professors will be considered honorary distinguished teaching faculty, and may not be recommended again for the award.

3) Quotas:

The quota for the Distinguished Teaching Awards is set at 0.9 percent of the total number of the university’s full-time and project-appointed faculty, with 0.1 percent allotted for instructors offering English-mediated instruction (EMI) courses. The quota for the Outstanding Teaching Awards is set at 8 percent of the total number of the university’s full-time and project-appointed faculty, with one percent for instructors offering EMI courses. Faculty members qualified for the award category of EMI courses must offer at least one English-taught specialized course within the latest academic year, excluding language courses, (bachelor’s / master’s / doctoral) thesis advising, special topics, seminars, selected paper reading, independent study, and service learning courses that are taught in English.

In addition, in order to encourage instructors to take part in the university’s general and liberal education as well as offer courses for the students of other colleges (hereafter called service-based courses), additional award quotas will be allotted based on the number of full-time faculty for these types of courses with 40 or more students (or 30 or more students for foreign language courses) from other colleges as follows:

  1. Distinguished Teaching Awards: The additional quota is 0.5% of the total number of instructors for these types of courses.
  2. Outstanding Teaching Awards: The additional quota is 4.5% of the total number of instructors for these types of courses.

4) Selection method:

Candidates are selected based on the Outstanding Teaching Faculty Questionnaires completed by students, the results of the Course Questionnaires administered by the university at the end of the previous two semesters, instructors’ accumulated teaching accomplishments and other related information. Departments and graduate institutes make an initial selection, followed by a second-round selection by the colleges and the Center for General Education, to finalize the list of candidates recommended for the university to select the final awardees.

Regulation / NTU Guidelines for the Selection and Awarding of Outstanding Teaching Faculty
Department / Curriculum Division, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-2388 #304
Website / These guidelines are only available in Chinese.

Outstanding Adjunct Faculty

1) Introduction:

The Outstanding Adjunct Teaching Awards were set up to accredit part-time faculty members for their efforts and contributions to teaching at NTU. The Awards are also presented in the two categories of Distinguished Teaching and Outstanding Teaching, and the recipients are publicly recognized and presented with certificates and medals of commendation.

2) Eligibility:

All current adjunct faculty members who have taught at NTU for three semesters or more in the last three years are eligible for selection. As the Outstanding Adjunct Teaching Awards are granted for a period of five years, recipients may not be recommended again within five years after receiving the award. Moreover, instructors who have been awarded twice since qualifying as a member of NTU’s adjunct faculty will be considered honorary distinguished teaching faculty, and may not be recommended again for the award.

3) Quotas:

  1. Distinguished Teaching Awards: up to 0.5 % of the total number of eligible adjunct instructors.
  2. Outstanding Teaching Awards: up to 4.5 % of the total number of eligible adjunct instructors.

4) Selection method:

Candidates are nominated with reference to the results of the Course Questionnaires administered by the university at the end of each semester in the past three years, the instructor’s accumulated teaching accomplishments, and other related data and information. Departments and graduate institutes make an initial selection, followed by a second-round selection by the colleges and the Center for General Education, to finalize the list of candidates recommended for the university to select the final awardees.

Regulation / NTU Guidelines for the Selection and Awarding of Outstanding Adjunct Faculty
Department / Curriculum Division, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-2388 #304
Website / These guidelines are only available in Chinese.