Criteria

The PMI Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award requires candidates to demonstrate the following four criteria:

• The nominee has demonstrated excellence in teaching.
• The nominee has demonstrated successful innovation in curriculum development or enhancement over the years.
• The nominee has demonstrated successful delivery of project management knowledge.
• The nominee has demonstrated engagement of students in the learning process and independent thinking.

Award Rules & Conditions

• Nominations that are submitted incomplete, incorrectly formatted, late, or in a language other than English will not be considered.
• PMI will not reimburse any expense for assembling nomination or presentation materials.
• PMI reserves the right within its sole discretion, and at any time up to presentation of the award, to determine that a candidate is or has become ineligible. If this happens, PMI will notify the candidate as soon as possible. Declined nominations cannot be revised or resubmitted.
• PMI reserves the right not to present the award for a particular year in which the evaluations completed indicate that nominations and supporting materials did not sufficiently demonstrate the stated criteria.

All submissions are rigorously reviewed by qualified volunteers and subject matter experts, leading to the selection of finalists and one overall winner.

Step 1 — Application

To begin the application process, the nominee must be nominated by one or more individuals. If multiple people support the nomination, one must be designated as the lead nominator. The lead nominator is responsible for assembling and submitting the complete nomination package through the PMI Awards Platform, including all required elements listed below.

• Curriculum Vitae (Mandatory)
• Teaching Information (Mandatory)
• Three letters of support (Mandatory)
• Supportive information (Optional)

Step 2 — Review Process

Verify the nominee’s eligibility and that all required materials have been submitted. Distribute and collect required paperwork, including PMI release and permissions forms.

Step 3 — Global Evaluation

A review committee of global volunteers evaluates the nominations. Nominees are scored based on the rubric for each criterion.

Step 4 — Award Winner

The recipient of the PMI Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award will be selected and notified following completion of Step 3. The award will be formally announced during the PMI Global Summit. After the award presentation, the recipient will be publicized through PMI communication channels and external media and may coordinate additional publicity with PMI.

Nomination Package

Curriculum Vitae (Mandatory)

• Up to 10 pages
• Focused on the nominee’s teaching, educational leadership, achievements, and other contributions to teaching and learning, as distinct from a standard CV pertaining to the nominee’s expertise

Teaching Information (Mandatory)

• The nominee’s university website and page on the website
• Project management courses taught, with the university's course IDs and a link to the course page
• Description of the nominee's past three years of teaching and innovations in teaching
• Nominee’s teaching philosophy (maximum 500 words)
• Recent, detailed course syllabus, including course content, as well as delivery and evaluation methods

Three Letters of Support (Mandatory)

• 1 page maximum each
• The support letters can be written by a former student who is now a Project Professional, a university-based student club related to project management, a peer faculty member, or a peer teaching evaluation body of the university. The letter of support should contain the following:
  • Evidence of the success of the nominee’s teaching.
  • Specific examples demonstrating how the nominee meets the award criteria.
  • One letter of recommendation must come from the department chair or program director of the division in which the nominee teaches or the dean of the college.

Supportive Information (Optional)

• Optionally, the nomination package may also include:
  • Information related to multiple courses taught by the nominee with a description highlighting relevant aspects of those courses.
  • Other artifacts—such as a three-minute video of a class, session plan, innovative teaching process, or teaching evaluations—with a narrative highlighting their relevance.
• Incomplete, late, or non-English nominations will not be reviewed.

Please note that PMI will not reimburse any expenses for nomination or presentation materials.