Members of the academy meet at least once a year to discuss plans and goals. Members of the executive council meet monthly. Winners of the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards and distinguished professors appointed on the basis of teaching are automatically invited to become fellows of the Teaching Academy. In addition, each school can nominate one faculty member each year for fellow status. From the nominations, the executive council of the Teaching Academy chooses fellows to be invited to join the academy.
Schools also can nominate one individual each year for associate fellow status.
Those chosen must have demonstrated excellence in teaching and must have identified an educational problem and developed a process or method to address that problem. Bruce Carlstedt, professor of pharmacy practice. James Lehman, professor of curriculum and instruction. Gerald Lynch, associate professor of economics. John McConnell, Emanuel T. Weiler Distinguished Professor of Management.