Awards
Local Awards
UofW Alumni Award for Distinguished Contributions to University Teaching: The award honours and recognizes distinguished teaching on campus and provides incentive and encouragement for achieving excellence in this field. All full-time members of the teaching faculty at the University (with a minimum of five consecutive years of teaching at the University of Windsor) are eligible. Generally, two awards are given, valued at $1,500 each.
UofW Excellence in Mentoring Award: Established in 2002 and sponsored by Patrick Palmer (Class of 1970). This Award recognizes faculty who offer personal, academic, and/or professional guidance to students, and make a significant contribution to their all-around development up to and following graduation. There are up to four awards a year given. All full-time and retired members of the teaching faculty at the University of Windsor, with a minimum of five consecutive years of teaching at the University of Windsor, are eligible.
Organization of Part-time University Students (OPUS) Awards: Some OPUS awards recognize those professors who demonstrate outstanding dedication to part-time students, helping them achieve academic excellence and greater learning.
WUFA Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award: This award is given in honour of Mary Lou Dietz, BA. MA. PhD, who was a faculty member and Dept. Head of Sociology, Anthropology at the University of Windsor. This honour will be award to a current or previous WUFA member who demonstrates the spirit of equity leadership through their contributions to creating an equity culture on campus.
Alumni Association Odyssey Award: The Odyssey Award recognizes alumni who are in the early years of their career path, having distinguished themselves through successes in career endeavours, notable achievements in their local community or the University of Windsor, or through a significant or innovative achievement in their professional or personal life.
UWSA Teacher of the Year Award: There are two awards given per year, give to one female and one male professor. This is a student driven award. Students are encouraged to send in nominations for an outstanding teacher.
Centre for Teaching and Learning Teaching and Mentorship Awards: Awards to honour and recognize distinguished teaching and mentorship on campus.
Provinical Awards
OCUFA
Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award: Each year OCUFA recognizes outstanding teachers and academic librarians in Ontario universities through its Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards. Since 1973 OCUFA has presented 389 awards. The recipients are selected by the OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards Committee. Approximately 7 awards are presented every year.
OCUFA Service Award: The OCUFA Service Award was established to honour individuals who have done, or continue to do, exceptional work on behalf of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations and its Members.
Lorimer Award: The Lorimer Award is established in honour of Joyce and Doug Lorimer of the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association and is instituted to honour and recognize outstanding contributions to improving the terms and conditions of employment of Ontario university faculty through bargaining.
OCUFA Equity and Social Justice Award: The OCUFA Equity and Social Justice Award celebrates the outstanding contributions of OCUFA members whose work has contributed meaningfully to the advancement of members of the academy (professors, academic librarians, and other academic staff) who belong to historically marginalized groups
OCUFA Grievance/Arbitration Award: The Grievance/Arbitration Award is open to current or previous academic faculty as well as faculty association staff from Ontario Universities who have made outstanding contributions to the defence of collective agreements and advancement of equity through the grievance/arbitration process.
National Awards
CAUT
Academic Librarians' and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award: The Academic Librarians’ and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award was established in 1994 to recognize outstanding contributions by academic librarians and archivists, other academic staff, or groups to the advancement of the status and/or working conditions of academic librarians and archivists at Canadian universities and colleges.
Dedicated Service Award: CAUT Council created the CAUT Dedicated Service Award in 2003 to recognize individuals for exceptional service to their faculty associations. Recipients are nominated by their association and the award is presented at a membership meeting.
Milner Memorial Award: The Milner Memorial Award was established by CAUT in 1969 in honour of James Milner, a former chairperson of the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, to recognize distinguished contributions to the cause of academic freedom.
Equity Award: The CAUT Equity Award was established in 2010 to recognize post-secondary academic staff who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to challenging exclusionary behaviours and practices such as racism and homophobia and by so doing have made post-secondary education in Canada more inclusive.
Donald C. Savage Award: The Donald C. Savage Award was established in 1997 in honour of Donald C. Savage, executive director of CAUT from 1972 to 1997, and was instituted to honour and to recognize outstanding achievements in the promotion of collective bargaining in Canadian universities and colleges.
Sarah Shorten Award: CAUT established the Sarah Shorten Award in 1990 to honour Sarah Shorten who served two terms as CAUT president. The award recognizes the outstanding achievements of those active in promoting the advancement of women in the academy.?
The Bernice Schrank Award: The Bernice Schrank Award was created in 2013 to recognize outstanding contributions to the enforcement of academic staff workplace rights through grievance/arbitration.
Lee Lorch Award: The Lee Lorch Award recognizes academics whose work has meaningfully advanced the values of post-secondary education, strengthened academic labour rights, and fostered intellectual engagement among students, peers and the public.
STLHE Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
3M Teaching Fellowship: The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and 3M Canada partnered to recognize exceptional contributions to teaching and learning at Canadian universities. The Fellowship is open to any individual currently teaching at a Canadian university, regardless of discipline, level, or term of appointment.
Lifetime Achievement Award: STLHE created this award to honour individuals who have, over their career, made significant contributions to teaching, learning and educational development in Canadian higher education.
