CAS Faculty Research and Scholarship Awards

The CAS Faculty Research and Scholarship Awards, as established by the dean of the College of Arts, bestows peer recognition on a faculty member of the college for outstanding efforts in research and/or scholarship activity during the past academic year or over a course of a career.

Categories of Award
One award may be given on an annual basis in each of the following categories:

  • Junior faculty research/scholarship award: Non-tenured
     
  • Senior faculty research/scholarship award: Tenured
     
  • Distinguished career scholarship award

Nominations
Nominations may be submitted by individual faculty members, groups of faculty or by academic administrative units. All nominations must address established criteria below through documentation of faculty research/scholarship activity accompanied by narrative justification of how such activity demonstrates academic excellence that serves as a model for all CAS faculty. Nominations must be submitted by March 30, 2002.

Criteria for Award

  • Publication of results of primary research and refereed or invited presentations of primary published research
     
  • Books, monographs and other non-research, refereed scholarly publication
     
  • Refereed or juried, invited artistic works, performances appropriate to one’s field
     
  • Professional/national awards for primary research and scholarship
     
  • Grant writing and funding of scholarly research or project
     
  • Pursuit and understanding of knowledge in a traditional arts and sciences discipline or related interdisciplinary area
     
  • Dedication to the pursuit and understanding of knowledge in a broad intellectual context

Award Committee
The award committee for the initial year will include the dean of CAS and the CAS dean’ s advisor for faculty research and scholarship. In subsequent years previous recipients of awards will serve on the selection committee as appropriate for each award.

Award Announcements
Award presentations will be made at a year-end special event followed by a celebratory dinner honoring the awardees in the evening. Recipients will receive a “Proclamation of Achievement.” In addition, each recipient’s name will be inscribed on an honorary plaque that will hang with conspicuous perpetuity in DeCary Hall. Public announcements of this honor will be made through campus-wide communication, news releases to local and regional media and to news outlets of each recipient’s choice.    
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