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Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award
Purpose
The Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award recognizes, encourages, and rewards excellence in teaching business communication. The award is sponsored by textbook authors Debbie D. DuFrene and Carol M. Lehman. Applicants must be current members of ABC, and they must be self-nominated or nominated by an ABC member.
At the ABC annual convention, the Teaching Committee will honor the recipient with a plaque and a check. The recipient will present a paper at the following year's conference plenary session.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria for selection are:
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1. Significant contributions
to business communication teaching methodology and concepts.
2. Current teaching or training
experience on business communication or related courses
3. Positive student/participant
and peer/administrative evaluations
4. Conference presentations,
publications, and/or research record (publications must include teaching-related
articles in the Business Communication Quarterly
and/or The Journal of Business Communication)
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Nomination Procedures
Applicants must be nominated by a current ABC member or self-nominated. Nominations are due to the Teaching Committee chair, Marilyn Dyrud on July 1. Application packets are due by August 15.
Teaching Committee Chair
Marilyn A. Dyrud
Communications Department
Oregon Institute of Technology
3201 Campus Drive
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Email:
marilyn.dyrud@oit.edu
Phone: 541.885.1504 (work) 541.883.2365 (home)
Application Procedures
The chair will acknowledge receipt of the nomination via email to the nominator and nominee. The application package is due to the chair by August 15. It should be a bound portfolio, with the following:
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- Resume (limited to 3 pages)
- A statement of teaching philosophy
- Description of research and its significance to teaching business communication (including 2- 3 recent publications or abstracts)
- Evidence of positive teaching evaluations (limited to 6 pages)
- Letters of support from dean and department chair
- List of up to 10 most significant publications, including one from either Business Communication Quarterly or Journal of Business Communication
The portfolio must not exceed 30 pages. Please note that the committee will not consider incomplete portfolios nor any pages beyond 30.
Evaluation Process
Committee members will independently review the credentials of each nominee and determine a winner. The committee chair will announce the recipient during the opening plenary session of the annual conference. Members of the ABC Teaching Committee are ineligible to receive the award or to nominate candidates.
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