Qualifications
This award recognizes a team of faculty members, from diverse departments and disciplines, who demonstrate the greatest collaborative impact on societal wellbeing in a particular place or community AND who have pursued that wellbeing together with students.
Eligibility
Full-time faculty at any rank, tenured, tenure-track, or non-tenure track are eligible to apply.
Award Information
Award is $3000 for each faculty member, up to three, and an additional $3000 to be used in support of the program for which the award was given.
The Provost awards up to two per year.
Nomination Requirements
All dossiers must conform to these requirements. Any that do not will not be considered by the committee.
- Compile all dossier material into a single PDF file.
- Include all dossier elements outlined below in the order that they are listed.
- Project summary (3 pages) of the dossier signed by the dean(s) or chair(s), as appropriate. The most useful summary does more than list the contents and reiterate the letters. In its own words the summary illustrates why the Public Service Awards Committee should give an award to the nominee. Thus it makes a clear, persuasive case for the nominees. For example, the executive summary might identify the main reasons for the nomination and/or summarize to the nominees’ strengths and talents.
- Nominees’ abbreviated curricula vitae (2 pages per nominee, up to 3 nominees)
- Nominees’ reflective and personal statements (1 page per nominee, up to 3 nominees) about public service. The committee is looking at how nominees outline the collaborative research, teaching, or service work that resulted in the project with the greatest positive impact in a particular place or community, and how nominees articulate their beliefs about and commitment to public service working together with students.
- Letters of support (1 page each) from the following individuals/organizations:
- Non-team Faculty Peer
- Non-team Faculty Peer
- Student
- Student
- Community Partner
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