Faculty Awards Criteria
Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award
The Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award recognizes a tenured or tenure-track faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in the area of scholarship/creative activity with emphasis on the last three years. Scholarship/creative activity is evaluated in terms of quality appropriate to the particular discipline.
Scholarship/creative activity includes, but is not limited to, refereed and invited publications; invited and contributed presentations and performances; outside funding for the support of scholarly/creative pursuits; exhibitions; inventions and patents; and published/copyrighted software. Faculty in all disciplines represented in the College are eligible for this award. Recipients of this award (formerly called the Outstanding Faculty Award) over the past seven years are ineligible.
If there are nominees for the Outstanding Faculty Scholarship award who were also nominated for that award last year, they will not have to submit all new letters of reference. Only a new reference from the nominee’s chair is required in that case; the other letters can be carried forward – for one year only – from the previous nomination file if the nominee so chooses.
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
The Outstanding Junior Faculty Award recognizes excellence at the assistant-professor level. It is open to tenure-track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Scholarship/creative activity is the primary focus of this award, but instruction and service are also evaluated.
Scholarship/creative activity includes, but is not limited to, refereed and invited publications; invited and contributed presentations and performances; outside funding for the support of scholarly/creative pursuits; exhibitions; inventions and patents; and published/copyrighted software. Faculty in all disciplines represented in the College are eligible for this award. Previous recipients of this award are ineligible.
Outstanding Teaching Award
The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a full-time regular faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in the area of teaching with emphasis on the last five years.
Teaching activities include, but are not limited to, performance as reflected on student evaluations; innovative teaching techniques; course and program development; authorship of textbooks, software, and other similar instructional materials; student accomplishments; direction of individual student work; teaching grants; and honors or awards for teaching. Included in the candidate’s dossier should be a one-page statement summarizing his/her instructional accomplishments, the last two to three years of student evaluations and other relevant materials.
Nominations
Any member of the Georgia State University community, including, faculty, staff, students and alumni may make nominations.
