Awards

Dean’s Research and Creativity or Teaching Award Winners

To recognize the extraordinary creative teaching and scholarship that occurs at TCU, a faculty member in each of the major academic disciplines of the university is recognized annually. These recipients are nominated and selected by their colleagues and become the nominees for the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar. Each fall, three teaching and three research award recipients are recognized at convocation.

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Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar Recipients

To recognize sustained exceptional teaching and high quality scholarship among the University’s faculty, two awards were given every other year – in one year, Distinguished Teaching, and in the next year, Research & Creative Activity – until 2005 when the awards merged and became The Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar. The Academic Deans consider nominations from schools and colleges and provide three recommendations to the Chancellor. The award recipient is named at Fall Convocation and a photo gallery of recipients is on display at The Mary Couts Burnett Library.

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Wassenich Award for Mentoring in the TCU Community Recipients

This award began in 1999, when TCU alumni Linda and Mark Wassenich created a fund to honor TCU faculty and staff who have made mentoring an everyday aspect of their lives and impacted student lives as a result. The award celebrates all those who serve as role models, advisors and guides to students.