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Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Service and Administrative Support

The Hall of Fame and Awards Committee of the College of Business Administration is seeking nominations of faculty and administrative support staff for this year’s Dean’s Excellence Awards in the areas of Undergraduate Teaching, Graduate Teaching, Research, Service and Administrative Support. The intention of these awards is to recognize the outstanding contributions of faculty and staff in support of the mission of the College. Recipients will receive $2000 in recognition of their outstanding contributions within the award categories. A College of Business Administration faculty or staff member is eligible to receive only one award each year.

To be eligible for an award for teaching, research, or service, a nominee must be a full or part-time faculty member or an administrator of the College. Part-time faculty members will have had to teach for at least two academic years to be eligible for an award. Tenured and non-tenured faculty members are eligible for these awards.

To be eligible for the excellence award in administrative support, nominees must serve in a full-time supporting role in the College and must have demonstrated excellence in service to students, faculty and the administrative team.

Nominations for these awards may come from faculty, staff, students, alumni and other friends of the College of Business Administration. Nominators and nominees will be asked to provide materials that support their candidacy for an award. The Hall of Fame and Awards Committee will review nominees and supporting materials and forward its recommendations to the Dean of the College.

Criteria

Selection criteria for these awards can include, but are not limited to, the following lists. It is not necessarily expected that applicants will meet every criterion in the category of nomination.

Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence

  1. Be an accomplished teacher.
  2. Demonstrate an impact on their discipline, on their students and on the programs and activities of the College and University.
  3. Introduce new innovations in courses taught.
  4. Teach effectively measured by student evaluations.
  5. Past teaching awards or honors.
  6. Letters from students and alumni.
  7. Evidence of continuous improvement in courses taught.
  8. Development of teaching/instructional materials.

Research:

  1. Have achieved a nationally recognized scholarly professional record.
  2. Demonstrate productivity in research.
  3. Publish several significant articles or other works of scholarship.
  4. Have visibility as a scholar within their field.
  5. Demonstrated success in acquiring external funds for research.
  6. Honors/recognition for scholarly work by professional organizations.

Service:

  1. Be a significant participant in the professional work on the discipline, in ways other than teaching or research.
  2. Contribute directly to the advancement of the College, University, professional organizations and the community.
  3. Have had significant impact on the programs of the College.
  4. Showed leadership in promoting the programs and activities of the College.

Administrative Support:

  1. Have a significant impact on the programs of the College
  2. Show leadership in furthering the programs and activities of the College.
  3. Be a model of professionalism in carrying out responsibilities.
  4. Demonstrate outstanding rapport when interacting with students.
  5. Have the respect of the faculty, staff and administrative team of the College.

The Awards Committee will review each application with supporting materials and make their recommendations to the Dean.

Award Recipients for 2007-2008

The proud recipients of the Dean's Award for 2007-2008 are: