President’s Award for Excellence
Criteria for Nomination and Selection
Description
- There are two categories of Faculty Awards for Excellence.
- The Early Career Award recognizes faculty who exhibit exceptional promise within their first seven years with the university. Promise may be demonstrated in scholarshp, research, or creativity. Total experience as faculty cannot exceed nine years.
- The Sustained Excellence Award recognizes faculty for distinguished career-long, sustained excellence in scholarship, research, or creativity, for a period of fifteen or more years.
Number of awards and award amounts
- There will be up to two $5,000 Excellence Awards per year, less applicable taxes. The distribution of the awards across the two categories will depend on the strength of the applicant pool for each category.
Who is eligible to be nominated?
- All benefits-eligible faculty who meet the employment criterion may be nominated. A nominee's appointment may not be more than 50% administrative.
Who may nominate?
- Candidates may be nominated by any benefits-eligible faculty member or administrator.
Selection Committee
- Representatives from each campus will be appointed by the provost.
Timeline for awards
- Call for nominations: October 14, 2011
- Nomination deadline: January 31, 2012
- Announcement of Awardee: Mid-April
Nomination Form
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Reviewed 2011-12-13.
