3.4 Faculty Honors
Each year a College faculty member is honored for excellence in teaching. The Faculty Cabinet or a faculty committee designated by the Cabinet is responsible for soliciting nominations, consulting with students, and selecting the honoree.The Centennial Scholar Award is presented in even-numbered years to a faculty member in the College in recognition of distinguished achievements in scholarship. The guidelines are as follows:
a. The Centennial Scholar Award Committee consists of previous recipients of the award.
b. The Dean, in consultation with the Committee, will send an announcement, including guidelines and nominations forms for the Centennial Scholar Award, to each Department in November of odd-numbered years.
c. Each department may nominate faculty members as candidates. By January 15, nominations are presented to the Dean for forwarding to the Committee. It is important for chairs to ensure that departments consider nominating faculty members as candidates for this award. Because chairs may be reluctant to lead processes that might result in this own nomination, it is the prerogative of the Dean to invite senior faculty in departments chaired by prospective candidates to prepare nominations. If any department fails to nominate a faculty member whom the Committee and/or Dean considers viable, the Committee may add that faculty member's name to the list of nominees.
d. By February 15, the Committee, after reviewing the nominations, will select a slate of finalists and inform the Dean of its selections.
e. Departments will provide additional material on each of these finalists to the Committee by the beginning of March. This material will include: copies of the finalist's scholarly work (books, articles, paper presentations, and published reviews of such work); a brief report on the quality of the presses and journals that have published the finalist's work; and, in the case of work in a language other than English, a brief report on the finalist's work prepared by someone familiar with that language.
This material is to be collected by the Dean and is to be readily accessible to members of the Committee for their review.
f. The Committee will determine the award winner from among the finalists and inform the Dean of its decision by two weeks prior to the scheduled date of the Honors Convocation.
The Stalnaker Lecture Award is presented to a distinguished faculty member who is invited to present a lecture to the University community on a topic in his or her discipline in September or October. This award is funded in part by the emeritus professors of the College. Selection of the award recipient is by a committee consisting of the three most recent Lecturers and a representative of the emeritus faculty.