Nominations open for 2022 Faculty Excellence Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2022 House/Bruckmann Faculty Excellence Award and the Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award.
Nominations for both awards can be submitted until February 28, 2022.
- For the House/Bruckmann Faculty Excellence Award for full-time, tenured faculty, use the online nomination form https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3FPTN7N_21FAC
- For the Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award, use the online nomination form https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NDBJPSG_ADJ21
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Nominations for both awards can be submitted (using the applicable online form) whenever evidence of excellence is noted.
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You can start a nomination form and complete it later, but please review the technical notes at the end of this article to be sure you don’t lose your work.
Awards will be presented in Spring Semester 2022.
House/Bruckmann Faculty Excellence Award Process:
Two House/Bruckmann awards are presented annually. Any full-time, tenured faculty member may be nominated for the award.
- Nominees must be tenured at the time of nomination and must be actively employed as a full-time member of the faculty to be considered for the award.
- Award recipients from the past 5 years are not eligible, and self-nominations are not accepted.
The nomination form asks respondents to comment on the nominee’s excellence and notable accomplishments related to up to 3 of the following 7 criteria:
- Excellence in Instruction
- Commitment to Student Success
- Collaborative Spirit
- Contributions to the College
- Contributions to the Community
- Professional Achievements
- Other
Starting in March 2022, a Nomination Screening subcommittee of past award recipients will examine all nominations and designate 5 final nominees.
Then faculty and academic administrators will vote to determine the 2 recipients of the House/Bruckmann Award.
Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award Process:
Up to 5 Adjunct Faculty Excellence Awards may be presented annually, with no more than one recipient per division (BTD, EIT, HPS, H&S, and adjunct faculty not assigned to one of the other divisions).
- Adjunct faculty who are eligible to be nominated for the award include those who work in a part-time capacity for the College in assignments that involve instruction, cooperative education coordination, clinical coordination, academic advising, or another faculty role.
- Nominations can be made by full-time and part-time faculty, academic administrators and staff members, and students. Self-nominations are not permitted.
The nomination form asks respondents to comment on the nominee’s excellence and notable accomplishments related to up to 3 of the following 7 criteria:
- Excellence in Instruction
- Commitment to Student Success
- Collaborative Spirit
- Contributions to the College
- Contributions to the Community
- Professional Achievements
- Other
Starting in March 2022, all eligible nominations will go through a review and endorsement process that includes the applicable program and department chairs and applicable academic administrators.
- All nominations supported by both the program/department chair and the applicable administrator will be reviewed by the Faculty Excellence Committee, which wil select the award recipients.
Technical notes about the nomination forms:
- You may revise or add to a previously submitted award nomination until the deadline (Feb. 28, 2022), but you must use the same computer and browser to do so.
- To submit a NEW nomination, you will need to clear your browser’s history OR use another computer or browser.
- You’ll type details for each criterion you select into a textbox with a limit of approximately 300 words. You may want to draft your nomination language in a Word or “plain text” document, and then copy and paste it into the survey form.