Awards for Excellence in Teaching Committee

The Awards for Excellence in Teaching Committee was a committee of the Academic Board with the function to consider nominations for awards for excellence  in teaching for members of academic staff judged to be outstanding teachers. The purpose of these awards was: (1) to recognise and reward teaching excellence; and (2) to encourage teaching excellence through this recognition and to ensure staff development activities.

A review of the Academic Board was carried out in 1995, with a Report of the Committee of Review, dated July 1995, submitted to Senate in October 1995. The report proposed that the board of nearly 400 members be replaced by a two-tiered structure: an Academic Forum of about the same number and an Academic Board of 61 members. The Board would be supported by 6 committees instead of 12, the new committees to be Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies, Teaching and Learning, Research Policy, Library and Information, and Academic Staffing. The new structure came into place in 1996.