The Center for Teaching Excellence exists to provide leadership and services that contribute to improvement of teaching quality at Texas A&M University. The Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholars Program was initiated in 1991 as a cornerstone effort in this quest for sustained excellence.
Each academic college annually selects one tenure-track developing faculty member for the Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar designation. This person, who will have already shown ability and interest in the teaching of undergraduates, receives a $6,500 grant to research and develop innovative teaching techniques with outcomes made available to other faculty through the Center for Teaching Excellence.
During the year of designation, the Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholars meet with each other, previously recognized scholars, the Council of Master Teachers, the Provost and the President, thus allowing these developing faculty to interact with recognized teachers and policy-making administrators of Texas A&M University. The program allows the University to develop role-model teachers and to give recognition of excellence and promise in teaching early in a faculty member’s career.
Dr. David Hala, Marine Biology, 2022
Dr. Ashley D. Ross, Marine & Coastal Environmental Science, 2021
Dr. Cassia Galvão, Maritime Business Administration, 2020
Dr. Jessica Labonté, Marine Biology, 2019
Dr. Peter van Hengstum, Marine Sciences, 2017
Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, Marine Biology, 2016
Dr. R. J. David Wells, Marine Biology, 2015
Dr. Karl Kaiser, Marine Sciences, 2014