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Home APSA Distinguished Teaching Award Introducing the new APSA Distinguished Teaching Award. The Association’s first discipline-wide award for teaching. The APSA Distinguished Teaching Award will honor outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching of political science at two- and four-year institutions. It will recognize a series of contributions spanning several years or an entire career, although it may also recognize a single project of exceptional impact. It will be first awarded in 2012 during the Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The deadline for submitting nominations has passed. Information on the 2013 APSA Awards will be released in the fall. The award was created through the efforts of Co-Chairs Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida, and Dick Simpson, University of Illinois, Chicago. They were joined by a leadership committee comprised of thirty-two Co-Founders and ten Fund Leaders. For more than 100 years the American Political Science Association has sought to recognize excellence across the discipline. Prizes for scholarship and service have been the norm but one key element has been missing. We need your help today to promote excellence in political science education by taking a leadership role in the creation of the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award. Please take a moment today and contribute to the award fund. Political scientists all come from diverse backgrounds with varied interests and specialties. But one common strain all political scientest, and everyone associated with APSA, shares is that they are all educators, training and developing the next generation of citizens and scholars. Whether done through one-on-one sessions with graduate students, engaging a lecture hall of hundreds, using technology to reach our students, or contribute by building infrastructure to enhance the teaching endeavor, the sharing of our knowledge defines all political scientists. Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida Co-Chair Dick Simpson, University of Illinois, Chicago Co-Chair Co-Founders Anonymous Barbara B. Bardes Harold F. Bass John C. Berg Mitchell Brown Michelle Deardorff Mary H. Durfee Welling Hall Kim Quaile Hill Karen M. Hult John Ishiyama Tobe Johnson Jane Y. Junn Melvin A. Kahn Gary Klass David B. Magleby L. Sandy Maisel Alison McCartney Richard G. Niemi Elinor Ostrom Carole Pateman William D. Pederson Dianne M. Pinderhughes Philip H. Pollock III Barbara A. Presnall Erin E. Richards Mark Carl Rom Kay Lehman Schlozman Theda Skocpol Rogers Smith James A. Thurber Pamela A. Zeiser Fund Leaders Elizabeth A. Bennion Thomas R. Dye Morris Fiorina Ole R. Holsti Kenneth Janda Calvin C. Jillson Nancy S. Love Henry R. Nau Larry J. Sabato W. Phillips Shively Robert J. Spitzer Susan Welch James Q. Wilson   Gifts from members and friends to help fund the award are always appreciated and help APSA promote teaching in political science.