The Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award is the most prestigious award conferred at UNCW.
The purpose of the award is to underscore the importance of teaching and to encourage, identify, recognize, reward, and support excellence in teaching and teaching-related activities across the University.
Recipients of the award manifest excellence as a way of life and stand out among the faculty as persons who have made and continue to make a significant contribution to higher education through their dedication and service to students.
The award carries with it both an honor and a responsibility: it identifies a member of the faculty as a person of excellence, and it calls upon that person so honored to share that excellence with colleagues and students.
The recipient chosen by the chancellor from the annual recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award and announced at the fall faculty meeting, receives a medallion to wear to official ceremonies (University Convocations and Commencements), a one-time stipend and a designated parking space for one year.
Recipients' names will be engraved on a plaque.
| Year Awarded | Name | Academic Unit |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Michaela Howells | Anthropology |
| 2023 | Dr. Nathan Crowe | History |
| 2022 | Dr. Kathy Fox | Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Literacy and Special Education |
| 2021 | Dr. Victor Malo-Juvera | English |
| 2020 | Dr. Amanda Boomershine | World Languages and Cultures |
| 2019 | Dr. Amy R. Taylor | Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Literacy and Special Education |
| 2018 | Dr. Eman M. Ghoneim | Earth and Ocean Sciences |
| 2017 | Dr. Sally MacKain | Psychology |
| 2016 | Dr. Caroline Clements | Psychology |
| 2015 | Dr. Julian R. Keith | Psychology |
| 2014 | Dr. Cara N. Cilano | English |
| 2013 | Dr. Patricia H. Kelley | Geography and Geology |
| 2012 | Dr. Herbert Berg | Philosophy and Religion |
| 2011 | Dr. Diana Ashe | English |
| 2010 | Dr. Peter Schuhmann | Economics and Finance |
| 2009 | Dr. Mark Boren | English |
| 2008 | Dr. Tracy Y. Hargrove | Elementary, Middle Level & Literacy Education |
| 2007 | Dr. Richard K. Olsen | Communication Studies |
| 2006 | Dr. Carole E. Tallant | Communication Studies |
| 2005 | Dr. Len Lecci | Psychology |
| 2004 | Dr. Robert G. Blundo | Social Work |
| 2003 | Dr. James B. Hunt | Management and Marketing |
| 2002 | Dr. Bradford L. Walker | Curricular Studies |
| 2001 | Mr. Philip Gerard | English |
| 2000 | Dr. Paul Kamenish | English |
| 1999 | Dr. Lori Spicher | Foreign Languages and Literatures |
| 1998 | Dr. James K. McGowan | Philosophy and Religion |
| 1997 | Dr. Louis J. LaNunziata | Curricular Studies |
| 1996 | Dr. Donald E. Furst | Art and Theatre |
| 1995 | Ms. Kathleen S. Halme | English |
| 1994 | Dr. Miichael D. Wentworth | English |
| 1993 | Dr. Faramarz Elikai | Accountancy and Business Law |
| 1992 | Dr. Timothy A. Ballard | Biological Sciences |
| 1991 | Dr. Grace M. Burton | Curricular Studies |
| 1990 | Dr. C. Sue Combs | Health, Physical Education and Recreation |
| 1989 | Dr. W. Lee Johnston | Political Science |
| 1988 | Dr. S. Sue Lamb | Psychology |
| 1987 | Dr. Saul Bachner | Specialty Studies |
| 1986 | Dr. John H. Haley | History |
| 1985 | Dr. Charles R. Ward | Chemistry |
| 1984 | Dr. Anne B. McCrary | Biological Sciences |
| 1983 | Dr. Betty Jo Welch | Communications |
| 1982 | Mr. William F. Adcock | Music |
| 1981 | Dr. Gerald Shinn | Philosophy and Religion |
| 1980 | Dr. Stephen C. Harper | Management and Marketing |
| 1979 | Mr. Frank Allen | Biological Sciences |
| 1978 | Dr. Frank B. Hall | Philosophy and Religion |