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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Students – hopefully you’re feeling the relief that comes at the end of a long semester (along with the fatigue!). Before you put all your books up for the break, I have a request… The Chancellor of Texas A&M System has implemented a Teaching Excellence Award system based on students’ evaluations of their faculty. These Teaching Excellence Awards provide a financial award to faculty (full-time and adjuncts) who have at least 75% of their students complete the online evaluation (through MyLeo) and score their faculty highly. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I believe we have some awesome faculty and adjuncts in the Social Work Department and I hope you would take a few minutes to log on and complete this very brief evaluation to provide recognition of excellence in teaching. Our university typically has 12-15 faculty campus-wide who receive this award every semester. I would love to see our department represented for the competence of our instructors. There’s no limit to how many faculty in a department can receive the award – it’s solely based on eligibility based on most the class completing the evaluation and scoring the professor highly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for all your hard work and enjoy your upcoming break!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brenda<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>