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VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS

The Faculty Excellence Awards began in 2004 and represent the highest honor given to a Valdosta State University faculty member. Faculty members are eligible to receive one of four awards of excellence in advising, professional activity, service, and teaching.

Criteria: The criteria for those awards are as follows:

• ADVISING

Criteria: The nomination criteria include the following:

A. Demonstrated high standards of advising effectiveness.

B. Outstanding or innovative advising techniques.

C. Positive reputation for advising from the perspective of students, colleagues, and alumni.

D. Evidence of sustained commitment to advising.

E. Evidence of high levels of student satisfaction.

• TEACHING

Criteria: The nomination criteria include the following:

A. Demonstrated high standards of teaching effectiveness.

B. Outstanding or innovative teaching techniques.

C. Positive reputation for teaching from the perspectives of students, colleagues, and alumni.

D. Evidence of sustained commitment to teaching.

E. Evidence of high levels of student learning or achievement.

• PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Criteria: The nomination criteria include the following:

A. Publication/presentation/research/creative-artistic work

B. Continued academic growth through courses, workshops, professional conferences, etc.

C. Active membership/leadership in professional organizations

D. Grant writing and/or implementation

• SERVICE

Criteria: The nomination criteria include the following:

A. Service to the University:

1. Serving on institutional committees

2. Academic advising

3. Student recruitment

4. Sponsorship of student organizations

5. Engaging in student activities

6. Involvement in Shared Governance

B. Service to the Region:

1. Community service in area of expertise

2. Active membership/leadership in community organizations

3. Volunteerism in the region

Eligibility:

To be eligible for any of the Excellence Awards, nominees must meet or exceed the following requirements:

• Must currently be a full-time faculty member for both semesters of the academic year for which the award is being given. Department Heads, Deans, and Directors are not eligible for this award.
• Must have completed at least three years of full-time teaching at VSU.
• Must not have received the same award more than once in any five consecutive years.
• May not be nominated for more than one VSU Faculty Excellence Award during any academic year.

Nominations and Selection Process in Academic Colleges/Divisions:

Each Academic College/Division will develop its own nomination and selection process that will ensure a fair and consistent evaluation of all nominees.  That selection process should be clearly delineated on the college/division website.  This process should result in the selection of a nominee to receive the college/division award and whose name will be forwarded for consideration in the university-wide selection process.

Nominations and Selection Process at the University Level:

Each Academic College/Division may forward no more than one nominee to the University Committee for review. The University Faculty Excellence Awards Committee will review the nominees submitted by the College/Division Committees and will recommend one nominee for each award to the President.

The University Faculty Excellence Awards Committee:

Members of the University Faculty Excellence Awards Committee will serve rotating three year terms.  The composition of this committee will be as follows:

• One tenured faculty member elected/appointed from each colleges/division;
• One Department Head elected/appointed by the Council of Department Heads*;
• One Dean/Director elected/appointed by the Deans’ Council*;
• The Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, or designee, who will serve as the committee chair

*The Department Head and Dean/Director may not be from the same college/division.  Members of the Committee shall not be nominees for any of these awards.

Award Selection Timeline:

Academic Colleges/Divisions will develop an appropriate timeline for the selection of college/division Faculty Excellence Awards winners whose portfolios should be forwarded to the University Excellence Awards Committee by the first Monday in April.  The University Excellence Awards Committee will review nominees during that month and make recommendations to the President by the end of spring semester.  VSU Faculty Excellence Award Winners will typically be announced during the opening of the university convocation in the fall.

Nomination Portfolios:

Nomination portfolios should include the nominee’s curriculum vitae in addition to a packet of no more than 20 pages with all items in a 12 point font.  Each packet must include the following items:

•A nomination letter from the nominee’s immediate supervisor (department head, director, or dean)

•A reflective statement that includes the nominee’s philosophy and strategies relevant to the specified category

•Three to four letters of support from those most appropriate to support the nomination in the specified category:  professional colleagues either at VSU or in the community or in the discipline, and/or students or alumni

•A well-organized set of documents that provide evidence of the nominee’s excellence in the specified category:

For advising, these materials could include any advising materials (checklists, forms, advising evaluations);

For teaching, these materials could include selected components of course syllabi, handouts, methods of assessing student learning and achievement that go beyond student evaluations, examinations, summaries of recent student evaluations, peer evaluations, student mentoring/advising, etc.

For professional activity, these materials could include abstracts or samples of publications/presentations/research/creative-artistic works, descriptions of continued academic growth through courses, workshops, professional conferences, evidence of active membership/leadership in professional organizations, and evidence of grant writing and/or implementation.

For service, these materials could include evidence of work in the following areas: serving on institutional committees, academic advising, student recruitment, sponsorship of student organizations, engaging in student activities, involvement in shared governance, community service in area of expertise, active membership/leadership in community organizations, and volunteerism in the region.

 

These documents should be accompanied by a brief explanation of why they are included in the dossier, i.e., how they document the nominee’s excellence in the specified category.

Nomination portfolios should not be placed in folders or binders - staple each copy in the upper left-hand corner. Portfolios that exceed 20 pages (not including the CV) will not be accepted.

Nomination packets will be held at the University level for 3 years, allowing nominees to be reconsidered during that period. In January of each year, the chair of the University Excellence Awards Committee will ask eligible nominees if they wish to update their packets.  These updates must be received by the first Monday in April.