The Northern State University Foundation encourages excellence and stimulates superior teaching, research, and service by annually recognizing faculty. This is the first year the award has included two categories: Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award and Foundation Faculty Excellence Award.

Award recipients from the College of Arts and Sciences include:

1995
David Grettler
David Grettler (history)
1997
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Abid Elkhader (mathematics)
1998
Ric Dias
Ric Dias (history)
2000
Kenneth Blanchard
Kenneth Blanchard (political science)
2001
Lysbeth Benkert-Rasmussen
Lysbeth Benkert-Rasmussen (English)
2006
Jon Schaff
Jon Schaff (political science)
2011
Erin Fouberg
Erin Fouberg (geography)
2013
Alyssa Kiesow
Alyssa Kiesow (biology)
2016
Anthony Wachs
Anthony Wachs (communication studies)
2017
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Courtney Waid-Lindberg (criminal justice)
2018
Peter Ramey
Peter Ramey (English)
2020Kristi Brownfield
Kristi Brownfield (sociology)
Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award
2020

Joh Mitchell

Jon Mitchell (biology)
Foundation Faculty Excellence Award
2022

Elizabeth Haller

Elizabeth Haller (English)
Foundation Faculty Excellence Award
2022

Ben Harley

Ben Harley (English)
Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award