Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) honors faculty who exemplify deep and broad commitment, skill, effectiveness, impact and leadership in teaching and scholarship.

The CAS Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentoring recognizes one faculty member for excellence in the mentorship of undergraduate and/or graduate students. This award recognizes contributions to students’ professional and personal development through guidance, support, and motivation for students to pursue their interests and passions while navigating personal circumstances.

The CAS Early Career Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence recognizes one outstanding early career faculty member from each of the College’s three pillars: Arts & Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Math & Sciences. The award recognizes outstanding scholarly, research, and/or performance achievements that are innovative and demonstrate broad impact and a clear research trajectory.

The CAS Wise-Diggs-Berry Endowed Arts Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence honors teaching excellence in and out of the classroom in the visual, performance, or written arts at Oklahoma State University. The recipient must demonstrate teaching excellence in the Department of English, Music, Theatre or Art, Graphic Design, and Art History. Evidence for teaching excellence in the arts may include student evaluations, successfully teaching courses in the arts, and supporting students’ community engagement in the arts.

The CAS Community Engagement Award recognizes excellence in community-engaged activities that, in line with guidelines of the Carnegie Foundation, “reflect collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional, state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity." The award consists of a cash prize and a plaque.

The CAS Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching is presented each fall at the CAS Convocation to faculty who have regularly taught lower‐division general education courses and are exceptional teachers of those courses. Exceptional teaching is defined as creativity and excellence in pedagogy alongside student success in learning. The award includes a plaque and a $1,000 base salary increase. Two awards are presented each year: one for tenure‐track or tenured faculty and one for non-tenure-track faculty.