Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

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Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

For more information, see the campus website.

This award—one for faculty members, one for academic professionals—is designed to foster and reward excellence in undergraduate academic advising. Each awardee receives of $2,000 for personal use. Any faculty member or academic staff member who has not received notice of nonreappointment and who has served as an academic advisor at the undergraduate level on campus for at least four (4) full semesters (excluding summers) before nomination for this award is eligible for consideration. Graduate assistant advisors are not eligible. Once a person has received this award, that person will not be eligible for nomination during the next five-year period.

Criteria
Primary criterion for selection is evidence that the advisor has had a major impact on undergraduate students and on their intellectual development through sustained academic advising relationships. It is expected that evidence of consistently excellent performance will be provided along with evidence of significant and lasting impact on students.

Solicitation
Communication from the Office of the Provost.

Nomination
Colleges may wish to capitalize on existing college-level advising award programs to select nominees for the campus-level award. The nomination procedure should involve undergraduate students as much as possible, with departmental and college circumstances dictating the best means to do so. An unlimited number of nominations can be submitted from the college. The following information is requested.

  1. A standard cover page including the name of the nominee, department, rank, and years at the university (Attachment A - see website).
  2. A narrative statement of nomination presenting the case for the nominee. This should briefly describe the importance of the nominee's activities to the overall instructional mission of the unit, the comments of students and departmental colleagues, and the nominee's overall impact on current and former students.
  3. Student evaluation of the quality of advising based on a broad cross-section of advisees (for example, a paper-and-pencil survey or a phone survey).
  4. Not more than four letters of support from students.
  5. A peer evaluation of the nominee's advising, not to exceed two pages.
  6. A short personal statement by the nominee concerning his or her goals for and approaches to advising, not to exceed two pages.

Nominations should not exceed five double-spaced pages (excluding the cover sheet and four letters).

Due
November 30
Nominations submitted to the departmental main office. Nominations may be submitted before the winter holiday.
January 15
Deadline to submit ten (10) copies to the college awards committee (for subcommittee III).
January 20
Deadline to submit three (3) copies to the Office of Dean for Academic Programs, 206 Engineering Hall, MC-272.
January 31
Two (2) copies of each nomination are transmitted by the dean to the Office of the Provost, 208 Swanlund Building. One copy remains on file in the deans office. The campus selection process is overseen by the Teaching Advancement Board and is advisory to the provost. There is no limit on the number that can be submitted.

Logistics
April
Award winner is announced at the campus Instructional Awards banquet.

Previous Recipients (College of Engineering)