Excellence Awards - Faculty and Staff

Nominations are for:

1. Excellence in Teaching – one full-time and one part-time faculty member
2. Excellence in Creative/Scholarly Activity – one full-time faculty member
3. Excellence in Service to the University – three full-time employees:
   • one to a full-time teaching faculty member, which includes Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor
   • one to a full-time unclassified employee which include management confidential and SUOAF employees, coaches, librarians, and counselors
   • one to a full-time classified employee which include employees in the following unions: maintenance, clerical, protective services, engineer & scientific, administrative, & residual.

Distinguished Faculty Award/Exemplary Service to Eastern

The award is given annually to honor a faculty member whose excellence in classroom teaching and devotion to scholarship continue to bring recognition to the University and have a positive impact on the lives of his/her students.

Board of Regents Faculty Awards

Awards given by the Board of Regents for Excellence in Teaching or research/creative scholarly work by full time, junior, faculty members and part-time faculty members of the Connecticut State Colleges and University.

Celebration of Faculty Excellence

Faculty Excellence Recipients 2026

This celebration provides an opportunity to recognize publicly the accomplishments of our extraordinarily talented and dedicated faculty. Faculty research, scholarship, and creative work is often invisible, and by bringing that work forward, we celebrate our faculty and hope to spark ideas and connections as you learn more about one another’s work. From analyses of feminist writers to ethnomusicology to direction of theatre productions to new techniques for studying scorpion venom, the work of Eastern’s faculty is wide-ranging and innovative. The teacher-scholar model exemplified by our faculty is at the heart of our institution and aligns closely with Eastern’s liberal arts mission. Indeed, much of the work we are celebrating today has been made stronger by the scholarly community at Eastern: it is interdisciplinary, inspired by shared interests, and created in collaboration with other faculty and/or students. Faculty, we are grateful for all that you do, and we are so fortunate to have you here at Eastern.