The Students-First Award
Faculty (including Adjunct Faculty) and staff | Four awards cumulatively, two for faculty and two for staff members. | One faculty and one staff will be awarded from the Anchorage campus. | One faculty and one staff selected, each from a community campus.
Demonstrates exceptional commitment to advancing a culture of institutional excellence that inspires and enables student achievement and success in two or more of the following aspects:
Criteria
- Instruction and learning experiences
- Building and developing curriculum and learning resources
- Mentoring students
- Advancing student excellence
- Advancing teaching excellence
- Outstanding contribution to student achievement that improves transition to higher education, performance and grades so that most students persist and complete their educational goals
- Demonstrated innovative and creative approaches in advising, programming, partnerships, outreach and support services that identify and remove barriers to success
- Level “above & beyond” normal job requirements/functions