Finalist material submissions are due January 13, 2025. Letters of support for finalists are due by February 6, 2025. Upload your materials below. 

 

The Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) honors exemplary teaching at UMass Amherst. Award recipients receive a monetary prize, and their names are inscribed on the DTA memorial wall in the Integrative Learning Center. Faculty recipients are awarded $3,500, and graduate students are awarded $2,000.

The review committees comprised of past DTA winners (faculty and graduate teaching assistants) review nominations in a two-step process prior to selecting five faculty (three tenure-track and two non-tenure-track) and two graduate teaching assistant awardees.

 

Eligibility

Tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for this highly-competitive award. Graduate and undergraduate students may nominate any instructor they have previously taken a course with or an instructor with whom they are currently enrolled in a course. Faculty may submit nominations for graduate teaching assistants.

 

Finalist Material Submissions

Finalist materials are due by January 13, 2025. Letters of support due by February 6, 2025. Note: you must be logged in to your UMass Google Account to submit finalist materials. If you are a letter writers who cannot log into Gmail, please email your letters to dta@umass.edu

Frequently Asked Questions

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Previous DTA winners

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