Ithaca College

The submission deadline is coming up for the Faculty Excellence Awards, which the Center for Faculty Excellence runs annually to recognize the innovative, caring, and passionate teachers who are the lifeblood of our college. This year - for the first time! - contingent faculty (part-time and full-time professors on limited contracts) are eligible for these awards as well. 

We encourage students, staff, and faculty to take a little time at the beginning of the semester to nominate someone whose skill and dedication as a teacher has positively impacted the lives around them. Whether that person is contingent or not, it is deeply meaningful to a professor to receive a nomination like this. If you know someone whose teaching has inspired you, whether you are their colleague, their department chair, or their student, please nominate them for this award. And if you know a contingent faculty member who has been doing so for years, without ever being eligible for this award before – please be sure to nominate them, and to encourage others to do so as well. A large percentage of the professors at this college have been excluded from consideration since they started teaching here, and it’s beyond time they get the recognition they deserve.

The process is simple: you fill out a form, you write a letter, and you get a couple of other people (the Department Chair and another faculty member, staff member, or student) to write letters as well. Then you send it all in to the Center for Faculty Excellence by Monday, February 26th. Further details can be found at the CFE website: https://www.ithaca.edu/cfe/facrecognition/ .

Please note that, while the website describes three different areas in which a faculty member might demonstrate excellence (teaching, scholarship, and/or service), contingent faculty members whose primary duty is teaching will be judged on the basis of their teaching alone. Which is to say: if you know a great contingent teacher, don’t let anything hold you back from nominating them this year.

The Contingent Faculty Union Committee

Chair & Faculty Council Rep: Rachel Fomalhaut (formerly Kaufman), Lecturer (anyafish@mailmight.com)
Vice-Chair & Social Media Steward: Megan Graham, Instructor (mdgraham@gmail.com)
Vice-Chair & Art Steward: Brody Burroughs, Lecturer (brodyburroughs@gmail.com)
Chief Steward: Mark Baustian, Lecturer (mbaustian@frontiernet.net)
Communications Steward: Tom Schneller, Lecturer (wyckwyn@gmail.com)
Social Media Steward: Sarah Grunberg, Lecturer (sgrunbe1@gmail.com)
Art Steward: John Burger, Lecturer (jedmundburger@gmail.com)
Stewards: Dyani Taff, Lecturer (dyanijohns@gmail.com); James Miranda, Lecturer (jamesmirandafiction@gmail.com), Meisha Lohmann, Lecturer (meishatlohmann@gmail.com)