Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE)

The Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) division of the Academy of Management invites nominations, including self-nominations, for the 2025 ONE Distinguished Educator Award.

This award recognizes and celebrates teaching accomplishments in the classroom and scholarship on teaching and learning on ONE topics for the last 5 year period. The award advances the teaching aims of the ONE division by promoting learning about the relationship between organizations and the natural environment. This significant relationship needs improvement to support the continued existence, development, and management of human organizations and societies. The pollution of air, water, and land, and the depletion of both renewable and nonrenewable resources as a result of the actions of formal organizations are the most obvious manifestations of these relationships. Future generations require relevant education to support them in meeting these challenges and the current generation of educators can, therefore, support change to more sustainable practices.

The award will be given to an educator in recognition of their teaching, development of educational materials, and scholarship on teaching and learning on ONE topics over the past 5 years (calendar years 2019-2024 inclusive) which must demonstrate diverse teaching expertise at the undergraduate, graduate and/or executive/practitioner levels. It is not necessary to have taught at all of these levels to apply for the award, but it is considered advantageous to have experience over multiple levels. Consideration is given based on the teaching opportunities at particular institutions as some universities do not offer a full range of degrees and/or have a particular focus. Note: This is not a lifetime achievement award and only focuses on teaching- and learning-related work within the last 5 years.

Selection Criteria

A demonstrated record of teaching on ONE domain topics

• Work with practitioners, faculty members, and/or in entrepreneurial/experiential learning/local community settings with students to promote environmentally sensitive policies and practices, either locally and/or internationally
• Nominee promotes integrative learning related to the natural environment as demonstrated by course or curriculum development, teaching practice, pedagogical publications, and/or other community engagement measures

Eligibility

• Any current ONE Division Academy of Management member
• The selected winner must agree to the following obligations:
  • Participation in each one ONE Teaching Award professional development workshop (PDW) or symposium in 2026 and 2027
  • Participation in the 2026 ONE Teaching Award selection process

Nomination 

The package should contain the following:

1. Letter of nomination detailing accomplishments and reasons for the nomination (maximum 5 pages)
2. Curriculum vita (abbreviated to highlight relevant teaching activities from the 5-year period; maximum 5 pages)
3. One sample syllabus from a ONE-themed course or class (abbreviated, if needed) (maximum 15 pages)
4. One letter of recommendation from former students or colleagues attesting to the impact of the applicants’ teaching (maximum 1 page)
5. IF AVAILABLE: One ONE-themed educational/pedagogical publication. Additional publications can be listed in the curriculum vita.

Nomination package should be uploaded as a single PDF file here Eastern time zone.

For questions, please contact Georg Reischauer, Head of Teaching Committee.

Selection Committee

• Members of the ONE Teaching Committee (Georg Reischauer, Divya Singhal)
• Last year’s ONE Distinguished Educator Award winner (Judith Walls)
• Member of the ONE Executive Committee (Chad Carlos)

Timeline

• April 30, 2025: deadline for submissions, 11:59 pm Eastern time zone.
• July 2025: The winner will be announced at the ONE business meeting during the Academy of Management Meeting.