Faculty and staff awards
Undergraduate Teaching and Advising Awards
The Warrington College of Business solicits nominations for the College Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, Professional Advisor of the Year, and Faculty Advisor/Mentor of the Year awards. The Senior Associate Dean’s office is collecting nominations by email to Daisy Johnson until Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. Please help us acknowledge and honor our outstanding instructors and advisors.
Faculty and advisors who have received this award in the last two years are ineligible. These include Maxim Dolinsky (FIRE), Amanda Jackson (Business Career Services), Cindy Dosch (FSOA), Emily Overend (Heavener School of Business), and Megan Mocko (ISOM).
The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the availability of funding to support college and University awards for undergraduate teaching and advising. Awards are to recognize excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in either teaching, mentoring or advising. The award categories are:
- Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
- Professional Advisor of the Year
- Faculty Advisor/Mentor of the Year
Each of the three award categories will be covered by a central funding allocation ($2000 per category). Colleges may use additional funds to provide more than one award within each category. Colleges without undergraduate instruction (Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine) may grant awards for outstanding teaching or advising, but they must do so with college funds, and those colleges are not eligible for the University-level award.
In addition to the college-level awards, there will be one University-level award in each of the three categories: (1) University Undergraduate Teacher of the Year award; one (1) University Professional Advisor of the Year award; and one (1) University Faculty Advisor/Mentor of the Year award. Each college may submit no more than one candidate for each award chosen from among those who received the college-level awards. Each University-level award will be for $4,000.
There are guidelines for each award, including deadlines for each step in the process and responsibilities of colleges and the Office of the Provost. Please visit the Office of the Provost’s page for the Teachers / Advisors of the Year Awards for full information.
The central funding for college-level awards for the eligible colleges is as follows:
| Agricultural & Life Sciences | $6,000 |
| Business Administration | $6,000 |
| Design, Construction & Planning | $6,000 |
| Education | $6,000 |
| Engineering | $6,000 |
| College of the Arts | $6,000 |
| Health and Human Performance | $6,000 |
| Public Health & Health Professions | $6,000 |
| Journalism & Communications | $6,000 |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences | $6,000 |
| Nursing | $6,000 |
| Undergraduate Affairs | $2,000 |
| UF Online | $2,000 |
Provost allocated payments for college and University-level awards will be processed by the Provost’s Budget Office. As mentioned, colleges may provide additional awards in each category; however, they will need to process the awards themselves. Colleges processing their own awards are encouraged to wait until the Provost Office advises when to process these so that all awards are distributed at the same time.
University award applications are due to the Provost’s Office January 16, 2026. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email Associate Provost Chris Flowers Hass or call him at 392-4792.
Summer 2025 Research Award Program
Accounting Teacher of the Year Award
J. Michael Cook Excellence in Teaching Award
J. Michael Cook is the former CEO of Deloitte and a longtime supporter of the Fisher School. He earned his bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Florida in 1964. Named after Cook, the Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Commons in Gerson Hall is the heart of the building. He has been a longtime supporter of excellence in teaching, including the Fisher School teaching award, and he sponsors the American Accounting Association/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize as the foremost recognition of an individual who consistently demonstrates the attributes of a superior teacher in the discipline of accounting.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | Dan Rimkus |
| 2023-2024 | Cindy Dosch |
| 2022-2023 | Scott Rane |
| 2021-2022 | Michael Ricci |
| 2020-2021 | Michael Schadewald |
| 2019-2020 | Robert Ronald Carnes |
| 2018-2019 | Michael Mayberry |
| 2017-2018 | Sonia Singh |
| 2016-2017 | Jennifer Wu Tucker |
| 2015-2016 | Christopher Falk |
| 2014-2015 | Justin Leiby |
| 2013-2014 | Kathy Rupar |
| 2012-2013 | Paul Madsen |
| 2011-2012 | Marcus Kirk |
| 2010-2011 | Jesse Boyles |
| 2009-2010 | Charles L. McDonald |
| 2008-2009 | Deborah Garvin |
| 2007-2008 | Victoria Dickinson |
| 2006-2007 | Stephen Asare |
| 2005-2006 | Doug Snowball |
| 2004-2005 | Deborah Garvin |
| 2003-2004 | Gary McGill |
| 2002-2003 | Stephen Asare |
| 2001-2002 | Jesse Boyles |
| 2000-2001 | Hadley Schaefer |
| 1999-2000 | Doug Snowball |
| 1998-1999 | W. Robert Knechel |
| 1997-1998 | Gary McGill |
| 1996-1997 | Stephen Asare |
| 1995-1996 | Deborah Garvin |
| 1994-1995 | Anwer Ahmed |