The Writing Program is seeking nominations for three awards for excellent writing instruction. These awards honor faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to and success in teaching academic writing to CWRU students.
Consider nominating fellow faculty and/or yourself for one of the following teaching awards. All nominations are due on or before Sunday, March 1. Winners will be honored with recognition by the university and a monetary award.
AIQS Innovative Teaching Award
This award is given annually to a faculty member teaching one or more Academic Inquiry Seminars. The award will recognize instructors who use innovative approaches, ideas and/or methods in the teaching of writing for the purpose of enhancing the experience of first-year writers at CWRU.
Awardees receive a cash prize and an invitation to facilitate a faculty workshop on their particular innovative teaching to share with fellow instructors.
Submit a nomination for the AIQS Innovative Teaching Award.
The Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary and Professional Writing
This award recognizes teaching that has contributed to the development of student writing within academic and professional fields across the university (other than English). Nominees can be tenure-track or non-tenure track regular faculty currently in any school or college of CWRU. This award is designed to recognize instructors who have helped their students publish academic/scholarly work, instructors/mentors of graduate/professional students, and/or instructors of SAGES Departmental Seminars, UGER Disciplinary Seminars, and Senior Capstones (where discipline-specific writing is taught).
Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching
This award was established in 2008 to honor outstanding teachers in the university's Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) program, a writing-intensive set of five courses for all undergraduates who matriculated from 2005 through 2023.
In academic year 2025-26, the award will begin recognizing and honoring the distinguished teaching of writing-intensive general education courses in the university's new common core curriculum, such as the Academic Inquiry Seminars and Communication Intensive courses. The Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award will be given annually, and the recipient will be selected by students based upon student nominations.
Submit nominations for the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching.
