Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching

From September 26 Chronicle:

“Nominations are now open for the prestigious Cherry Award–at $200,000, the largest single award presented to an individual for great teaching. Nominees for the Cherry Award should be professors in the English-speaking world with a proven record as distinguished scholars and extraordinary teachers. Three finalists, announced in spring 2009, will recieve $15,000, and their home departments will recieve $10,000. In the fall of 2009, each finalist will present a lecture series at Baylor University. The winner will receive $200,000 and will teach in residence at Baylor for a semester.For more information, on how to nominate a great teacher for the Cherry Award, please visit www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/.” Deadline, November 3. 2008