The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award was established at Rider in 1961 to recognize faculty teaching excellence. Two recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award are selected annually by the University Honors Council from nominations submitted by Rider students, faculty, and academic administration.
| Year | Recipients | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Arthur C. Ford Jr. | Carl B. Zoerner | ||
| 1962 | George L. Battista | Eloise Wilson | ||
| 1963 | Demetrios N. Dertouzos | Emanuel Levine | ||
| 1964 | G.R. Crowningshield | Derrill I. McGuigan | ||
| 1965 | Walter A. Brower | Dorothy W. Hinsey | ||
| 1966 | Guy W. Stroh | Stephen M. Vuglen | ||
| 1967 | Sherman M. Ancier | William L. Stuck | ||
| 1968 | Grace B. Donnelly | Arthur Frank | ||
| 1969 | Martha B. Ingram | Harry D. Sprowles | ||
| 1970 | Frances E. Eggert | Kenneth L. Maxwell | ||
| 1971 | Laurence Eisenlohr | Dominick A. Iorio | ||
| 1972 | Edward B. Brower | Carl F. Nawoj | ||
| 1973 | Lawrence O. Ealy | Peter Yacyk | ||
| 1974 | Joseph F. Talarico | Mark A. Vander Heyden | ||
| 1975 | William D. Guthrie | Mark E. Sandberg | ||
| 1976 | Joseph M. Gowaskie | Thomas A. Leyden | ||
| 1977 | Norman T. Gates | Albert Nissman | ||
| 1978 | Katharine T. Hoff | Frederick H. Turner | ||
| 1979 | John J. Gorman | Harvey R. Kornberg | ||
| 1980 | Gerald J. Kent | Frederick J. Yeager | ||
| 1981 | Marianne E. Battista | Sandra L. Stein | ||
| 1982 | Howard Schwartz | Alan R. Sumutka | ||
| 1983 | Richard L. Beach | Inez G. Calcerano | ||
| 1984 | Kenneth A. Gorman | Rodney G. Jurist | ||
| 1985 | Jesse B. DeEsch | Joseph E. Nadeau | ||
| 1986 | Ronald Huslin | Charles McCall | ||
| 1987 | Patrick Chmel | Donald Tosh | ||
| 1988 | Gary Barricklow | Michael Epstein | ||
| 1989 | James W. Dailey | Barry B. Seldes | ||
| 1990 | William J. Amadio | Jerry Rife | ||
| 1991 | Carol S. Brown | Robert C. Good | ||
| 1992 | Sigfredo Hernandez | Katherine Maynard | ||
| 1993 | Peter Aberger | Barry Janes | ||
| 1994 | Dennis Buss | Bosah Ebo | ||
| 1995 | Marvin Goldstein | Gerald Klein | ||
| 1996 | Susan Denbo | Barry Truchil | ||
| 1997 | John F. Hulsman | Jonathan H. Millen | ||
| 1998 | Richard Burgh | Michael S. Benner | ||
| 1999 | Mary O’Reilly | Arlene Wilner | ||
| 2000 | John Long | Roderick McDonald | ||
| 2001 | Mary A. Leck | Linda S. Materna | ||
| 2002 | Anne T. Salvatore | Roberta Clipper Sethi | ||
| 2003 | Kelly Noonan | James Murphy | ||
| 2004 | Robert Lackie | Jonathan Yavelow | ||
| 2005 | Diane Casale-Giannola | Elizabeth Haywood-Sullivan | ||
| 2006 | Feng Chen | Todd Weber | ||
| 2007 | Bruce Burnham | Cynthia Newman | ||
| 2008 | Ronald Cook | Kenneth Cowan | Sharon McKool | David Rebovich |
| 2009 | Michael Curran | Joel Phillips | ||
| 2010 | James Riggs | John Suler | ||
| 2011 | Brooke Hunter | Stefan Young | ||
| 2012 | Tracey Garrett | James Goldsworthy | ||
| 2013 | Eugene Kutcher | Vanita Neelakanta | ||
| 2014 | Diane Campbell | Amanda Quist | ||
| 2015 | Nikki Shepardson | Tan Miller | ||
| 2016 | John Donovan | Catrinel Haught Tromp | ||
| 2017 | Trevor Buser | |||
| 2018 | Karen Gischlar | Kathleen Price | ||
| 2019 | Danielle Jacobs | Kathleen Pierce | ||
| 2020 | Terri Pertuit | |||
| 2021 | Michael Curran | Charles Ray |