Call for nominations: Levitt Teacher Award

All Drake faculty, staff, and students are invited and encouraged to nominate a Drake faculty member for the Madelyn Levitt Teacher Award, created in 1994 in honor of Madelyn Levitt’s commitment to Drake, and her ongoing interest in faculty and staff achievement and academic excellence. 

Each year this award recognizes commitment to student success on the Drake campus by honoring a member of the Drake University faculty for excellence in teaching.   In order to make a nomination, please submit a letter that speaks to the following qualifications:  

  •   an informed mind in inspirational dialogue with students 
  •   integrity in personal relationships
  •   rigor in intellectual endeavors
  •   contagious enthusiasm for her/his subject matter.

A nominee must be a faculty member holding the rank of instructor, or above, and in at least her/his fourth academic year of service.  A nominee cannot have won this award within the past five years. The letter of nomination is due to Deputy Provost Renée Cramer no later than February 18, 2022.  The letter should be sent as an attachment to renee.cramer@drake.edu and nicki.kimm@drake.edu.

The nominated individual will be notified by the Provost’s Office of her/his nomination and asked if they are willing to be considered. 

At the nominee’s acceptance, the nominator will be asked to collect the following supporting material and submit it to Nicki Kimm by March 18, 2022:  

  • a curriculum vitae;
  • a short statement, by the nominee, of educational philosophy or about methods of teaching;
  • teaching evaluations for the nominee for the previous two semesters.
  • A minimum of one additional letter supporting the nomination must be submitted. At least one letter of support must be from a current student and at least one letter of support must come from a faculty member, and there may be no more than five letters including the nomination letter and letters supporting the nomination.

Electronic submission of materials is required. Send all documents to nicki.kimm@drake.edu.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost