Faculty Awards and Honors
The Office of Academic Affairs coordinates University-wide faculty honors and awards, and nominations for system-wide academic awards. We are honored and delighted to have such distinguished faculty members as teachers, researchers, and scholars on our UNL campus.
- College, Campus, and University Awards and Honors
- External Awards and Honors
- National Competitions
- Full list of recent award winners
Where to send nominations
Nominations for awards should be sent to the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 208 Administration, CC 0420.
NOTE: UNL nominees for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/Professors of the Year, will ordinarily be drawn from OTICA and Academy awardees.
Deadlines for receipt of nominations
Third Friday in January 2008: (Due in Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Office)
Note: Nominations to be forwarded by colleges which will have their own earlier deadlines
- Harold and Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Award
- College Distinguished Teaching Awards (DTA)
- Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities (The Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award)
- The Academy of Distinguished Teachers
UNL and NU Awards
- Full list of recent award winners
- Academy of Distinguished Teachers
- Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award: Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities
- College Distinguished Teaching Awards
- Harold & Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Award
- Othmer Chairs
- Outstanding Research & Creative Activity Award (ORCA)
- Outstanding Teaching & Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA)
- University Professorships
- University-wide Departmental Teaching Award (UDTA)
- Willa Cather and Charles Bessey Professors

