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Past Recipients

Awards are given the year after the teaching year is recognized. For example, the award for teaching in the year 2014 was given in 2015.

Two individuals stand on a stage in front of an "Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance" banner. The individual on the left holds a plaque for the 2023 Teaching Excellence Award, while the other is shaking hands and smiling. Several people seated at tables in the foreground take photos and applaud.

2024

Prof. Josh D. Neufeld

2023

Dr. Faisal al Faisal

2022

Dr. Kathryn S. Plaisance

2021

Dr. Tara Bissett

2020

Dr. Tara Bissett

2019

Dr. Brenda Yasie Lee

2018

Dr. Chad Wriglesworth
Dr. Norm Klassen

2017

Dr. Frankie Condon

2016

Michelle Ashburner

2015

Prof. Rohan Jayasundera

2014

Dr. Josh D. Neufeld

My vision is best expressed in the words of bell hooks, who writes that “the classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy”. This award means a lot to me, especially knowing that the initiative for the nomination came directly from my students.

Tara Bissett, 2020 OUSA Teaching Award Winner
Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture