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2013 CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation Recipient Announced

The 2013 CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation in Political Science has been awarded to Dr. Brian M. Harward for his careful implementation of a campus partnership, with an external archives and research center for service learning, that focuses on the law, the courts and the judicial process.

Professor Brian M. Harward is the director of a campus partnership with the Robert H. Jackson Center. This partnership is based upon a model of service-learning and student research and is embedded into specific courses, the departmental curriculum and the campus mission. His innovative approach demonstrates how political science faculty, their departments, and their campuses can expose students to experiential learning, reinforce curricular priorities and desired proficiencies, and provide essential skill experience, while meeting the needs of external organizations.

The award will be acknowledged at the 2013 ASPA Teaching and Learning Conference, in Long Beach, California, February 8-10th. APSA will also acknowledge the award at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois at the reception honoring teaching.

About the Award

CQ Press Publishers proudly announces the 2013 CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation (CQ Press in an imprint of SAGE). The award carries a $500 cash stipend and recognizes a political scientist who has developed an effective new approach to teaching in the discipline. The award seeks to honor a wide range of new directions in teaching. For example, one year, a professor might be chosen because of an innovative course syllabus, and in another year, a professor may be honored for using a new multimedia approach to reaching students. The only limits on what will be recognized are the imagination and creativity of those teaching political science. The award will be presented at the 2013 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference in Long Beach, California.
 
 

2013 Nomination Process is now closed

Nominations and self-nominations were accepted. Applicants were asked to send nominations and supporting documentation (i.e. syllabi, samples of assignments, letters of support from students and faculty, etc), (in one packet) to the address listed below, or electronically to teaching@apsanet.org.

All submissions should included:

• Personal statement (written by the nominee) detailing the teaching innovation, its impact, and why this innovation deserves this honor.
• Letter of nomination from nominating faculty (if relevant), briefly summarizing the teaching innovation and its impact, and explaining why it deserves this honor.
• Other supporting documents of nominee and/or nominator’s choosing.

The deadline for nominations for the 2013 CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation was Friday, January 11, 2013. Please send any questions to teaching@apsanet.org. 

Completed application materials were mailed to (postmarked by January 11, 2013):

CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation
American Political Science Association
1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036-1206

Previous Awardees

2011 Recipient: Professor Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University

Professor Hershey received the award for teaching innovation in the field of graduate education and teacher training for her three module graduate seminar designed to prepare students for the demands of teaching. This three part Preparing Future Faculty module represents an innovation, not only in the form of the pedagogical tools and collegial teaching community that has been made available to young aspiring political science professors, but it also serves to enhance the learning experience of current and future political science students, and ultimately teaching and learning in the discipline of political science.  

2010 Recipient: Professor Jerry Goldman, Northwestern Univeristy 

Professor Goldman Dr. Goldman created Pocket Justice, a free technological tool that allows faculty and students broadened access to Supreme Court cases using the iPhone and eventually other smart phones. Goldman is also the founder and director of the OYEZ project, a multimedia archive focused on the US Supreme Court. These resources provide students and faculty studying civil liberties or constitutional law with searchable access to transcripts of the public arguments, opinions and audio of key Supreme Court decisions. These innovative pedagogical tools invite students to witness and access the Supreme Court decisions which have influenced American politics and public policy.