Faculty, academic staff and students are invited to nominate tenured faculty members for the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows Award. Established by the Cornell Board of Trustees in 1992, the award recognizes faculty who have a sustained record of effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of Cornell undergraduate students. Weiss fellows receive a $5,000 a year award for five years and hold the title as long as they are professors at Cornell. Fellows can apply the award to programmatic purposes of their choosing.

Nominations from faculty should include their own letter, a supporting letter from another member of the academic staff and six letters of support from undergraduate students. Student nominators should include, in addition to their own letter, one supporting letter from another student, and the names and addresses of four additional students who are willing to write letters of support. The committee will obtain any additional material required.

Nomination letters should make a substantial case for the nominee, addressing his or her specific contributions, including examples that demonstrate:

• Making distinctive contributions to undergraduate teaching such as challenging and well-organized presentations, adaptability to the learning needs of students, innovative approaches to course materials, creation of scholarly materials for student use and availability to students outside of class.
• Influencing students beyond the formal teacher role such as advising or mentoring individual students, advising student organizations or groups, serving on teaching and curriculum committees and informal interacting with students.
• Helping students in case of illness or other emergency, or advising students confronted with difficult problems.

Nominations, due by March 5, should be sent to the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows nominating committee, 315 Day Hall. Further information: 255-4843.