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Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award
2024 Winner Channa De Silva
The Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award encourages, recognizes, and rewards superior teaching and meritorious performance. Teaching faculty in their third year of service at WCU are eligible for nomination if they have not received this award in the preceding five years. The award amount is $5,000 per year and is given out annually. Students and faculty may nominate finalist as a part of WCU's integrated awards system that occurs every January. Committee procedures, policies and members can be viewed via SharePoint.
Previous Winners
| 2023 Katie Zejdlik-Passalacqa | 2022 Brian Gastle | 2021 Cyndy Caravelis |
| 2020 Erin Callahan | 2019 Alvin Malesky | 2018 Windy Gordon |
| 2017 Jen Schiff | 2016 Sudhir Kaul | 2015 Risto Atanasov |
| 2014 Kelly Nelson Tracy | 2013 Hollye Moss | 2012 Wesley Stone |
| 2011 Alexander Macaulay | 2010 Elizabeth "Libby" G. McRae | 2009 Laura Wright |
| 2008 Burton R. Ogle | 2007 Tracy Zontek | 2006 James Scifers |
| 2005 Laura Cruz | 2004 Gibbs Knotts | 2003 Mary Catherine Fenton |
| 2002 Terry R. Nienhuis | 2001 Kathy Ivey | 2000 Marsha L. Holmes |
For additional information on the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award please visit SharePoint or call the Coulter Faculty Commons at 828.227.7196.