The Provost's Annual Awards for Faculty Accomplishments are granted to faculty members who have demonstrated excellence and creativity in their respective fields.  Each year four winners of the Provost's Annual Awards are recognized for their outstanding work in the following entries: Innovation in Teaching, Outstanding Research, Creativity in Design and the Visual Arts, and Outstanding Literary Achievement.

The award winners are selected by a committee, which is chaired by the Provost, and consists of faculty members from the School of Business Administration , School of Engineering , Information Technology Program, Interior Design Program, Visual Communication Program, and Liberal Arts.

This award recognizes the development and use of an innovative methodology in teaching and learning, innovative redesign of an existing course, development of a new course or new material authored or created by the instructor, or adoption and  use of a new technology or an innovative use of existing technology in teaching and learning.

This award category includes: research papers authored or coauthored by the faculty member, presented at refereed academic or professional conferences, workshops, symposiums, meetings of learned societies, or similar adjudicated events; research papers published or accepted for publication in refereed academic or professional journals; research published as a contribution to a compendium or reference work in the discipline or as a chapter in an edited book of readings; and, inventions, discoveries, new research techniques, or similar scientific accomplishments by the faculty member.

Examples include drawings, paintings, engravings, sculpture, photographic works, artistic illustrations, cartoons, typographic works, architectural designs, or other similar works.

This award recognizes achievements in poetry, romance, spirituality, literary criticism, interpretation of literary works, social criticism, philosophy plays, biographies, and anthologies.