Nominations are now open for the 2024 Outstanding First-Year Seminar Instructor Award from the Office of Student Success and Belonging. The award recognizes UIC instructors who have demonstrated exemplary instruction and curriculum development in first-year seminars and who have made a positive impact on students, inspiring and supporting student learning, development and success.<\/p>\n
Nominations are due April 1.<\/p>\n
The Office of Student Success and Belonging plans to award two instructors, who will receive:
\n– A one-time monetary award of $1,500
\n– Up to $500 to register for the Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience or another conference focused on undergraduate student success
\n– Recognition and a plaque presented at the UIC Spring First-Year Seminar Summit<\/p>\n
To be eligible, instructors must have taught a first-year seminar at UIC for at least three semesters in the past five years. A supervisor, colleague or past student can submit a nomination. Previous winners can be nominated again, provided that at least five years have passed since the last award.<\/p>\n
For more information or to submit a nomination, visit the Outstanding First-Year Seminar Instructor Award website<\/a> or email fys-awards@uic.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Nominations are now open for the 2024 Outstanding First-Year Seminar Instructor Award from the Office of Student Success and Belonging. Submit yours now!","content_author":"Erika Chavez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=21923"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=21923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}