Outstanding Clinical or Skills Teaching Award
Rules, Process, and Nomination Instructions
Who’s Eligible
All full-time clinical and skills teaching staff. This includes all legal writing staff and any full-time clinicians at the law school clinics. If you are not sure if someone is eligible, check with Associate Dean Spence, spence@lclark.edu
Decision-Making Process
Nominations will be reviewed by the Dean and any others he may at his discretion appoint to be involved in the process. A nomination may be carried over from one decision-making period to another. This means that a nomination that does not result in an immediate award does not mean the nomination might not eventually result in an award.
Although the number of nominations received by a professor will be a factor to consider, this award is not strictly about the number of nominations received. By its nature clinical and skills teaching involve a very low student/faculty ratio. This means that individual nominations that are particularly compelling can lead to an award.
Timing of Decisions
Decisions on awards will be made twice a year, once in October and once in February. Announcements of the awards will be made in November and in March
Timing of Nominations
Nominations may be made at any time.
Who Can Nominate a Professor
Nominations may be made by students or faculty, although self-nomination by faculty is not permitted.
How to Nominate a Professor
See the nomination form here (.pdf). Turn in nomination forms to Associate Dean Spence’s office.
Deadlines
Nominations received by October 10th 2008 will be considered for a November award.
Nominations received by February 6th 2009 will be considered for a March award.
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