Associate Faculty Merit Status

Associate Faculty Merit Status is awarded to individuals who have made a professional commitment to IU South Bend based on criteria relating to teaching, course development, student consultation, research, publications, performance, university and community service, and attendance at divisional and professional meetings.

Associate Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award

The Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs encourages College, School, and Division Deans/Directors/Chairs to nominate excellent teachers for the Indiana University South Bend Associate Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award.

Chancellor's Professor

The Chancellor’s Professorship honors a full professor or librarian with highly meritorious performance in all areas of faculty or librarian work.

Distinguished Research Award

The Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs shall encourage Division Deans/Directors/Chairs to nominate excellent researchers for the Indiana University South Bend Distinguished Research Award.

Distinguished Teaching Award

The Distinguished Teacher implements effective and innovative teaching techniques that demonstrate the unique ability to motivate student learning.

Excellence in Online Teaching

This award honors one faculty member per year who shows evidence of outstanding online teaching for a fully online or hybrid/blended course.

Excellence in Teaching with Technology

The Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award honors one faculty member per year who shows evidence of outstanding and innovative use of technology to improve student engagement and learning in any course format.

Trustees' Teaching Award

These awards are given to those applicants who show evidence of sustained and consistent teaching excellence. These awards will be given to a maximum of seven percent of the faculty on each campus.

Lundquist Award

The late Eldon F. Lundquist of Elkhart was a distinguished long-time member of the Indiana legislature. He is remembered especially for his ardent support of higher education in this state. In 1979 his friends established an IU fund in his honor.

Fulbright Scholars

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