The Signature Courses have celebrated faculty engagement and inclusion over the years with two awards: the Holleran Steiker Award for Creative Student Engagement and the Signature Course Inclusive Classroom Award. In 2023, the program added the Signature Course Educating Through Empathy Award.

Past Recipients of the Holleran Steiker Award for Creative Student Engagement

• Keffrelyn Brown
• Pat Carter
• Jane Cohen
• Juan Dominguez
• Michelle Habeck
• Mehdi Haghshenas
• Brad Love
• Leonard Moore
• James Patton
• Pam Paxton
• Lito Porto
• Guy Raffa
• Daron Roberts
• Aaron Rochlen
• Mike Starbird
• Paul Woodruff

Past Recipients of the Signature Course Inclusive Classroom Award

Alex Beasley – Fall 2020
Assistant Professor, American Studies/Women & Gender Studies
College of Liberal Arts
UGS 302: Emotions in History

Tracie Matysik – Fall 2020
Associate Professor, History
College of Liberal Arts
TC 302: A History of the Self

Marcelo Paixao – Fall 2020
Associate Professor, African/African Diaspora Studies
College of Liberal Arts
UGS 303: The Tones of Inequality

Suzanne Seriff – Fall 2020
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology/Jewish Studies
College of Liberal Arts
UGS 303: Difficult Dialogues: Immigrants as Aliens

Abigail Aiken – Spring 2021
Associate Professor
LBJ School of Public Affairs
TC 302: Sex & Society: Reproduction as a Biological, Social & Political Process

Paul Bonin-Rodriguez – Fall 2021
College of Fine Arts
UGS 303: The Power of Story

Leticia Marteleto – Fall 2021
College of Liberal Arts
UGS 302: Evidence-based Social Change

Lisa Moore – Fall 2021
College of Liberal Arts
UGS 303: Survive and Thrive – LGBTQ at UT