The SEC Faculty Achievement Awards honor faculty members from SEC member universities who have exceptional achievements in research and scholarship. Each campus selects one winner/nominee, and there is an overall Conference winner. All recipients receive an honorarium and a keepsake from the SEC. The University of Alabama SEC Faculty Achievement Award Selection Committee is composed of previous awardees, with the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs serving as the committee chair.
Winners
| 2025 | Dr. Andrew Billings, Communication & Information Sciences, Journalism and Creative Media |
| 2024 | Dr. M. N. V. Ravi Kumar, Community Health Sciences, Translational Science and Medicine |
| 2023 | Dr. Clair Major, Education, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies |
| 2022 | Dr. Andrew Dewar, Arts & Sciences, Music and New College |
| 2021 | Catherine M. Roach, Arts & Sciences, English |
| 2020 | Dr. Subhabrata “Subha” Chakraborti, Business, Information Systems, Statistics & Management Science |
| 2019 | Dr. Ramana G. Reddy, Engineering, Metallurgical & Material Engineering |
| 2018 | Dr. Trudier Harris, Arts & Sciences, English |
| 2017 | Dr. Arunava Gupta, Arts & Sciences, Chemistry |
| 2016 | Seth Panitch, Arts & Sciences, Theater & Dance |
| 2015 | Dr. Kim Bissell, Communication & Information Sciences, Journalism & Creative Media |
| 2014 | Dr. George Rable, Arts & Sciences, History |
| 2013 | Dr. John Lochman, Arts & Sciences, Psychology |
| 2012 | Dr. David Dixon, Arts & Sciences, Chemistry |