GOLDEN APPLE AWARD

The Beatrice Gallatin Beuf Golden Apple Award annually recognizes outstanding freshman-level teaching in an A&S course.  The award includes a cash stipend and brass plaque.

Criteria: "the Golden Apple Award will be given to the teacher who best demonstrates those outstanding characteristics in the classroom that excite students to the power of learning and who instills in them a love of books, ideas, and the thrill of discovery."

Nominees are tenured (or tenure-track) UW faculty and extended term (or extended term-track) academic professionals who have taught a freshman-level (1XXX) A&S course during the previous two years. The year 2008 nominees would have taught Fall 2006 through Spring 2008.

Anyone who wins the Golden Apple Award is not eligible to win again for four years. In addition, the winner of the Ellbogen Award is not eligible to win the Golden Apple Award in the same year.

Department heads nominate candidates for the award by writing a letter to the Golden Apple Award Committee describing the nominee's strengths in working with freshmen-level classes, how the nominee's teaching fits into the nominee's job description, what sort of out-of-class interaction the nominee typically has with students, what type of audiences were in the nominee's freshman-level class (i.e., were the classes required in the major? University Studies? Large or small classes? Electives? Discussions?, etc.). The portfolio must also include student evaluations from the past two years of the instructor's freshman-level classes.  Other supporting material deemed relevant may be included in the portfolio.

A committee of students from the A&S Student Council, including some A&S Senators, will make the final selection. A representative from the dean's office will coordinate the process. 

 Nominations are due in the dean's office February 12, 2008.

 See previous winners below.

1986    Julia Combs (Music)

1987    Robert George (Zoology and Physiology)

1988    Ira Rosenholtz (Mathematics)