Provost Teaching Awards
Recognizing teaching excellence
The Provost Teaching Awards recognize teaching excellence and a commitment to fostering an educational environment in which all students succeed. Awardees will have demonstrated evidence of advancing student success through teaching activities, particularly in ways that advance the ASU charter.
Each year, awards will be granted to honor a tenure-track faculty member and a career-track faculty member.
Nominations are made by deans of academic units, or dean’s designees, and are now open. Please sign in with your ASURite ID and password on the upper-right corner of this page, then click the button to enter the nomination form.
Units needing to assign a dean’s designee to submit the nomination, please contact Karen Engler-Weber ([email protected]) for access.
Nominations are now closed.
2025 Provost Teaching Awardees
Matt Ignacio
Assistant professor
Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
Ignacio designed innovative and immersive curriculum, trained and mentored future social workers, and led place-based collaborations with students and community members. His innovative course designs and earnest mentoring efforts enable student success.
Karla Murphy
Teaching professor
Chelsie Schlesinger
Instructor
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Murphy and Schlesinger are recognized for their exceptional, collaborative and innovative pedagogy that has redefined first-year writing at ASU. Their partnership, born from the challenges of the pandemic, evolved into a nationally recognized model of inclusive, student-centered pedagogy. Their teaching exemplifies ASU’s Charter by fostering access, inclusion, and real-world impact transforming how students learn to write, and how educators across the university imagine teaching with AI.
2024 Provost Teaching Awardees
Heather Bateman
Professor
School of Applied Sciences and Arts
College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
Bateman is a wildlife ecologist committed to applied, career-connected learning. She tries to pass on the passion that she has, teaching graduate and undergraduate students ways to integrate aspects of discovery and curiosity with field-based, hands-on experience so they can achieve real-world application in conservation.
Carolyn Cavanaugh Toft
Teaching professor
Department of Psychology
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Cavanaugh Toft has taught more than 16,000 students, primarily in large-enrollment psychology classes across the curriculum, ranging from first-year to senior students. She uses storytelling and examples from clinical practice to give students a sense of how people with different psychological disorders perceive the world.
2023 Provost Teaching Awardees
Jennifer Broatch
Associate professor
School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Broatch recognized that the pedagogy of statistics education has not kept pace with the role and impact of statistics in society, she has focused her career on changing the landscape of modern statistics education and has developed innovative curricula that promote student success.
Gregory Broberg
Associate teaching professor
School of Social Transformation
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Broberg works to engage students in interactive exercises to promote critical thinking about complex justice-related concepts, using real-world case examples that highlight the establishment and impact of structural inequalities to better position students to dismantle such inequities in their future work.
Tara Lennon
Associate teaching professor
School of Politics and Global Studies
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lennon is passionate about enabling students' voices to be heard in the classroom, and regularly utilizes a wide range of techniques to support student engagement, from Slack channels and interactive polling to innovative “fishbowl” town hall discussions.
Tracy Spinrad
Professor
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Spinrad has brought her passion for the science of human development to her work with students
both in and out of the classroom. Over her 25 years at ASU, Spinrad estimates that she has taught almost 4,000 students, and mentored countless others in their research endeavors.