The Teaching and Learning Centre offers support to celebrate teaching excellence and educational leadership by identifying potential nominees, supporting instructors in preparing award nomination materials and offering resources to write winning nominations and letters of support.

At the University of Prince Edward Island, we have a long history of teaching excellence. One way we see this in the number of instructors who have been recognized with teaching awards at the institutional, regional and national level. UPEI consistently ranks highly among Canadian universities in student satisfaction with the quality of teaching and the quality of the overall educational experience. Our faculty and instructional staff are highly rated by students who describe their professors, lab and clinical instructors and teaching assistants as knowledgeable, inspiring, caring and engaging.

To learn more about some of these awesome faculty and instructional staff, check the Instructor Spotlights and Award recipients.

2023 Awards

Dr. Stacey MacKinnon - AAU Anne Marie MacKinnon Award for Educational Leadership
David Varis - Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership
Dr. Libby Osgood - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Magdalena von Eccher - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Carolyn Thorne - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Libby Osgood - University Award of Excellence for Teaching
Dr. Henrik Stryhn - University Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision

2022 Awards

Dr. Shannon Murray - Christopher Knapper Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Dr. Stacey MacKinnon - Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership
Ms. Heather Barnick - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Dale Sorensen - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Ms. Darlene Nuqingaq - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Mike MacLellan - Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching

2021 Awards

Dr. Ann Braithwaite, 2021 3M National Teaching Fellow
Dr. Derek Lawther, 2021 Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Charlene VanLeeuwen, 2021 Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership 

Previous Years' Award Winners

Previous Recipients of the Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
Previous Recipients of the Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership
Previous Recipients of Presidential Recognition Awards of Merit for Teaching