The nominee must be nominated by one or more persons.

When more than one person supports the nomination, a lead nominator must be designated to assemble and submit a nomination package containing:

• A CV (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
• 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

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–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.

PMI will not reimburse any expense for nomination or presentation materials.

Three Letters of Support (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, 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.

PMI Academic Programs will:

• Verify the nominee’s eligibility and that all required materials have been submitted
• Confirm receipt and eligibility of the nomination
• Administer the review process and notify the nominator of the result
• Distribute and collect required paperwork, including PMI release and permissions forms, from the selected nominee

Nominations are reviewed and scored by a peer review panel. The evaluation process is proprietary to PMI.

Award recipients will be notified via email. PMI reserves the right not to present an award on the basis of papers received.

The PMI Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award will be presented at PMI’s Awards Gala taking place at that year’s Global Summit.

The award recipient will be publicized through PMI communication channels and external media after the award presentation. The recipient may also coordinate additional publicity with PMI.

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.

Please send all inquiries to [email protected] FAO Daniel Nicholls.