President’s Award for University Citizenship

There are three categories of Faculty Citizenship Awards.
1. The Leadership Award recognizes faculty who have provided exemplary leadership for the university. Examples of areas of leadership include, but are not limited to, faculty/shared governance, major curricular reform or program development, chairing a department or academic program, and fostering collaboration between or among departments, divisions or schools.
2. The Service Award recognizes faculty for distinguished service on one of the UM campuses or to the UM System. Nominees should have made exceptional contributions to achieving one or more goals of the university, while embodying the values of the university.
3. The Mentoring Award recognizes faculty who have provided exemplary mentoring for other faculty.

There will be up to three $5,000 faculty citizenship awards per year, less applicable taxes. The distribution of the awards across the categories will depend on the strength of the applicant pool in each area.

All benefits-eligible faculty may be nominated. The award is open to faculty members not holding administrative appointments above a department or division chair or head.
Nominees for the Service and Mentoring categories may not hold appointments that are more than 50% administrative.

Candidates may be nominated by any benefits-eligible faculty member or administrator.

Reviewed 2012-07-03.