Awards
Call for Nominations for Faculty Awards
Nominations: Deadline March 3, 2024
In cooperation with the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, the Faculty Senate President is asking for nominations for five major faculty awards. A brief description of each is included below.
Faculty, please consider yourself or your colleagues for nomination. All 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 nominations remain active and updates are requested. Students making nominations may, if they like, seek the assistance of the President of the Faculty Senate.
Many of you are familiar with these awards and the fact that each distinction includes an award of $2,000.
In cooperation with the Provost, the Faculty Senate President invites nominations of University of Denver faculty for the following five major faculty awards:
- Distinguished Scholar Award
- This award recognizes unusually significant and meritorious achievement in professional scholarship, as evidenced by publications and their enhancing effect on classroom teaching.
- Distinguished Teaching Award
- This award recognizes excellence in teaching. The nomination should emphasize the degree to which a person’s teaching has constructively influenced his/her students. The nominee must have completed three or more years of teaching at the University of Denver.
- Faculty Service Award
- This award is given to a faculty member in recognition of outstanding service to the University, the community, or the profession.
- University Lecturer
- This award recognizes superlative creative and scholarly work. The lecturer is chosen without regard for time spent at the University or popularity as an individual or as a teacher. The award is announced at the Fall Convocation and presented at the University Lecture in the spring.
- Ruth Murray Underhill Teaching Award
- This award recognizes excellence in teaching by an adjunct faculty member, here defined as a teacher whose primary employer is not the University of Denver. It is named after Ruth Murray Underhill, who served as an instructor at the University from 1948-1952 and as an adjunct faculty member into the 1970s. Nominees should have taught at least one course per year for the University for each of the three years prior to nomination. Courses must have been taught in a degree-granting program but need not have been taught in a single department or unit.
Please consider nominating your colleagues or yourself for any of the awards.Nominations from deans, directors, and department chairs are particularly appreciated considering those individuals have access to annual review, reappointment, promotion, and tenure materials that could help identify outstanding performance by faculty members. Nominations from the prior two academic years will automatically remain in consideration without any additional action required.
The Awards Subcommittee of the Faculty Senate Personnel Committee makes recommendations to the Provost, the Chancellor, and the Board of Trustees, who make the final selections. The committee recommendations are taken very seriously.
We have a NEW Nomination Process this year:
To open a Faculty Awards Submission, please email Allee Burke at institutionalresearch@syria-events.com and provide the name of the nominee. Once the process is open, you will receive an email from Watermark and will see the process in your Workflow inbox.
For each nomination, please submit using this Watermark interface the following materials:
- 1. A nomination letter that summarizes the nominee’s scholarship, teaching, and/or service accomplishments, as relevant to the award sought;
- 2. A current curriculum vitae for the nominee;
- 3. No more than five (5) letters of support (e.g., from colleagues, students, alumni, or others who might share valuable insights.
The Faculty Awards Subcommittee of the Faculty Senate Personnel Committee will make a recommendation to the Provost based solely on the materials requested above.
Additional materials will not be considered. You may nominate the same person for multiple awards, but you must submit separate nomination letters and supporting materials for each award.
When you are finished uploading your nomination materials, select “Actions” in the top right hand corner and select “Submit to Committee Chair” for the Faculty Awards Subcommittee chair to compile your submission for review. The nominee will not receive any notification regarding the nomination.
If you have any questions please contact Allee Burke at institutionalresearch@syria-events.com.
Please note that the deadline for nominations is March 3, 2024. Submissions are final and cannot be amended or supplemented once submitted.