They join a group of IU faculty members who have been chosen annually since FACET's inception in 1989, bringing FACET's current full-time faculty membership to a total of 372 award-winning faculty. The total IU faculty number is about 5,000.

FACET awards are presented to IU faculty members who have demonstrated their exceptional commitment to teaching and learning through areas of self-evaluation, course preparation, research, instructional skills, and student impact.

They will be honored with a retreat on May 18 and 19 in Indianapolis.

FACET, an IU Presidential initiative, is designed both to recognize and enhance outstanding teaching throughout the IU system and to promote continued development of teaching excellence among colleagues at IU and beyond.

In recent years, FACET's efforts have expanded both at the campus level and statewide. FACET activities include the Leadership Institute, Associate Faculty and Lecturer Conference, Future Faculty Teaching Fellows Conference in partnership with IU Graduate School; and a partner with the Mack Center at Indiana University for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning. FACET has published several books, such as "Quick Hits" (1994), "More Quick Hits" (1998), "Quick Hits for New Faculty: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers" (2004), and "Quick Hits for Educating Citizens" (2006), available from the FACET office; the Peer Review of Teaching CD-ROM, available from the FACET office; and the FACET Choir Video: "What’s a Teacher For? The Nurturing No-Nonsense Classroom," available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

FACET Director David J. Malik, also the associate executive vice president of IU, encapsulates FACET's mission by stating, "FACET faculty are among the most dedicated faculty focused on teaching and learning, and the big winners are the students in these faculty classes."