Ithaca College

The Faculty Development Committee is pleased to invite nominations for Faculty Excellence Awards.

Once again, we are fortunate to offer five awards, each with an award of $1,500. In order to be eligible for these awards, a candidate must be a full-time faculty member who has completed at least one year of employment at Ithaca College and who will be full time during the 2010-2011 academic year. Note that release time is no longer part of the award package.

Criteria: The foremost criterion for the Excellence Awards are the descriptions of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service as stated in the Ithaca College Policy Manual 2002-2003, Volume IV: Faculty Handbook. Candidates should be able to demonstrate distinction in at least one of these areas while also establishing well-rounded performance appropriate to their appointment. Areas of distinction could include, but are not limited to:
· Innovations in teaching
· Experiential learning initiatives
· Diversity initiatives
· Sustainability initiatives
· Effectively incorporating scholarship into the classroom
· Bringing national recognition to Ithaca College
· Exemplary service to the College, the larger community, and/or the discipline

Nomination:  Any faculty member, administrator/staff member, or student from the college community may nominate an individual for an excellence award.  It is the nominator’s responsibility to complete and submit the nomination, although a student nominator may request that this responsibility be given to a faculty member or administrator/staff member. Self-nominations are not eligible.  Each nomination must conform to the following guidelines:

Faculty Excellence Award
· Cover page
· Curriculum vita
· Letter of nomination by the nominee (not to exceed two pages, 12 pt font)
· Three letters of support (not to exceed two pages, 12 pt font)
· Nominating letter by a faculty colleague, administrator/staff colleague, or a student
· Two additional support letters from faculty colleagues, administrator/staff
  colleagues, a student, an alumnus/a, and/or external colleagues
· The three letters should include:
· At least one from an Ithaca College faculty colleague
· At least one from another faculty or professional colleague, internal or external
  (i.e., no more than one student/alumnus/a support letter)
· The strongest support letters will address:
· All roles the faculty member is typically expected to perform, including teaching,
  scholarship, and service
· Special emphasis on the area(s) of distinction performed by the nominee
· The nomination is limited to the materials listed, no additional materials
  will be considered

Any candidate nominated for an excellence award in 2009 is invited to resubmit, but should be sure to update materials and follow the revised guidelines. Award winners from the past five years are not eligible for an award in this cycle.

Nominations will be reviewed by the Faculty Development Committee and previous award recipients. Reviewers are ineligible for these awards and may neither nominate nor write in support of a candidate. The awardees will be recognized at the annual luncheon for recipients of faculty development awards held in May and at Convocation.

Nomination forms are available in the deans’ offices and on the Center for Faculty Excellence website at www.ithaca.edu/cfe/. The nomination form along with supporting materials must be submitted to Scott Erickson, Chair, Faculty Development Committee, Department of Marketing/Law, 427 Park Center for Business, 274-1235, gerickson@ithaca.edu, by Friday, March 26, 2010.