Teaching Awards

ACC believes in rewarding those faculty who demonstrate outstanding teaching. The following awards are coordinated through the Professional Development office: ACC Teaching Excellence, NISOD Excellence Award, and Minnie L. Stevens Piper Award nominations.

For more information about nominations for these awards, contact Melissa Richardson.

ACC Teaching Excellence

ACC Teaching Excellence Awards honor full-time and adjunct faculty who promote special learning opportunities, student interaction, and innovation. Other criteria are depth/breadth of knowledge in subject area and a profound teaching philosophy.

Recipients are presented with a plaque at commencement and full-time faculty recipients also receive a $1000 cash award. Nominations are made by faculty, staff and students.

The nomination deadline for the Teaching Excellence award is the second Friday in April.
To nominate online go to http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/awards/bestprof.php.
You can also download a paper nomination form and fax to 512-223-7995. To view recipients, please go to http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/awards/te-pastwinners.php.

NISOD Excellence Award

The National Institute for Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award program was established to support individual colleges' recognition and celebration of their finest instructors.

At its annual conference, NISOD recognizes more than 1,000 Excellence Awards recipients by formally presenting them with a teaching excellence medallion and an awards booklet that recognizes and showcases their achievements.

For more information about the NISOD award, visit http://www.nisod.org/.

Every year, selected ACC faculty receive recognition and are awarded this NISOD Teaching Excellence Award.

The nomination deadline for submitting nominations to the Professional Development office is Novmeber 28, 2008.

View the complete list of past Austin Community College NISOD Excellence Award Recipients.

Minnie L. Stevens Piper Award nominations

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation honors fifteen professors each academic year for their dedication to the teaching profession and for their outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievement. Honorees are awarded certificates naming them "Piper Professors," together with the cash honoraria of $2500.00 each and a commemorative gold pin.

The purpose of these awards is to give recognition to the teaching profession rather than to research, publication, administration, or other such related activity, although these criteria are also considered by the Selection Committee. This award is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards bestowed upon faculty in the State of Texas. Only ten professors receive this award each year among a pool of approximately 10,000 educators.

For more information about the Foundation, visit http://www.cpa.state.tx.us/scholars/mspabout.html.

The nomination deadline for the Piper Professors award is the first Monday in October.