Crown Family School Faculty Awards

Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring at Crown Family School

The Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring at Crown Family School recognizes and honors faculty members who have provided exemplary advising and mentoring to Crown Family School doctoral students. Full-time Crown Family School faculty members are eligible for the award.

Award recipients are selected based on the faculty member's contributions to students' scholarly and professional development, as well as to enhancing students' overall experience in the doctoral program. This includes but is not limited to: advancing students' thinking and knowledge in their area of research; providing opportunities for students to develop research skills (i.e. data collection or analysis, manuscript writing, etc.); contributing to students' professional development by, for example, helping to make connections with other scholars and supporting conference presentations; and advising students on setting goals and providing support for meeting those goals.

Crown Family School doctoral students nominate faculty and a selection committee from Crown Family School faculty and administration make the final decision on the award recipient based on the letters of support. The recipient is recognized at the Student Hooding Ceremony in June.

The School proudly recognizes the following faculty for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring at Crown Family School:

William Pollak Award for Excellence in Teaching

The William Pollak Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Crown Family School is given to a member of the Crown Family School faculty for exemplary graduate teaching. 

Given annually from 1995 until 2003, the award is now presented every other year. On the occasion of his retirement, several of professor Pollak's former students, colleagues, and others generously committed gifts to create an endowed fund which bears his name and which generates a cash gift for the award recipient.

Regular, full-time faculty members from any division or professional school who teach Crown Family School students are eligible for nomination. Nominations and selection are based on the faculty member's contributions to classroom teaching which enriches, deepens, and makes more rigorous the thinking and knowledge that students will bring to learning and doing throughout their careers. Students are asked to submit letters of support and a faculty committee makes the final selection.

Professor Pollak was a faculty member at the Crown Family School for 26 years, from 1976 to 2002. He taught courses that introduced students to economic analysis and that applied economics to a range of issues in social welfare. He also served as Associate Dean for Administration from 1983 to 1986, and as Deputy Dean for the Faculty from 1998 to 2001. He was the 1997-1998 recipient of the teaching award, which was renamed on his retirement in 2002.

The School proudly recognizes the following teaching award winners: