Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology

About the Award

The Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology recognizes the faculty member or team that best exemplifies innovation in teaching by use, development, or adaptation of technology. The award celebrates innovation that results in positive learning outcomes for undergraduate students and that is recognized or adopted by faculty colleagues within or outside Boston University. Each year, the Provost’s Faculty Teaching Awards Committee selects a Gitner Award winner who receives a $10,000 prize. The award is conferred at the annual Celebration of Teaching, Research, and Scholarship. Learn more about the committee here.

Nominations

Nominations should be completed via the official nomination form and should briefly describe the following:

• The technology that was used or created
• Why its use is innovative
• In what class(es) it was employed
• In what classes it will be used in the future
• Evidence of the impact it has had beyond the faculty member/team’s particular course(s)

The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2024 Gitner Award is Friday, October 13, 2023. Please email your nomination form to the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at apunderg@bu.edu. If you have any questions about the Gitner Award, please contact Kristen Vellinga, senior administrative coordinator, at vellinga@bu.edu.

To be eligible, a faculty member must:

• Have held a full-time, continuing appointment on the teaching faculty for not less than six semesters;
• Not be currently under review for promotion or tenure;
• Not be on sabbatical leave or leave of absence during the spring semester of the current academic year;
• Not be a previous winner of the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.

Lecturers are eligible, as are teams led by at least one eligible faculty member.

Pedagogical innovations must be demonstrated effective in at least one course, and it must be clear that they will be used again regularly.

• Past Awardees