Faculty Honors and Awards Committee
Annual Report AY 2007-2008
I.
Executive
Summary
During AY 2007-2008, the
Faculty Honors and Awards Committee conducted the nominations, selection and
announcement cycle for the 2008 Distinguished Faculty Awards, designed and
finalized the plaque and certificate templates for these awards, developed a
set of processes and a calendar of tasks to be implemented annually, and
solicited nominations for the CSU Wang Awards.
II.
Charge to the
Committee
Academic
Senate Policy #S05-233
The Faculty Honors and Awards Committee
promotes, selects, and recognizes SFSU faculty with a distinguished track
record of teaching, professional development, and service. The
establishment of these awards and honors will serve two goals; first, to honor
an individual faculty member for his/her accomplishments and second, to honor
the SFSU faculty as a whole by selecting from our ranks a few individuals each
year that exemplify the accomplishments for which all faculty strive.
The committee is charged to:
á Develop internal
awards that, at minimum, include a Distinguished Teaching Award, a
Distinguished Professional Achievement and Growth Award, and a Distinguished
Contribution to Community Award.
á Develop and
identify the criteria, the eligibility requirements, the nomination process for
each type of award, and procedures for determining awardees.
á Determine an
appropriate recognition vehicle/ceremony for the announcement of nominees and
recipients for each award (e.g., HonorŐs convocation, graduation).
á
Review, adopt, and publicize the criteria and timeline for awards
á Develop a
timetable that will allow for timely decisions on awards made by the committee.
á Provide a report
that lists each award given by this committee to the Academic Senate.
á Prepare and
forward the names and information packets of SFSU award recipients to
nationwide award outlets (e.g., Wang, Carnegie Foundation).
á When necessary, make improvements to
the selection process with review by the Faculty Affairs Committee, and the
University Research
III.
Activities of
the Year
The 2008
committee members were: Rashmi Gupta, assistant professor, social work; Nancy
Hayes, dean of business; Darlene Yee-Melichar, professor of gerontology,
Dorothy Tsuruta, professor and chair of Africana studies; Marilyn Verhey, dean
of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development and Shawn Whalen, director of
forensics. Sacha Bunge,
Professor of psychology, was on sabbatical leave and did not serve on the
committee during this academic year
The committee
finalized text for the certificates and plagues for the Distinguished Faculty
Awards, which was outstanding from Academic Year 2006-2007. The certificates and plagues were
provided to the awardees from 2006-2007. Templates were put in place for future
processing of the certificates and plagues.
A process and calendar
were created which set for the annual tasks for announcement, promotion,
nomination, selection and awarding of the Distinguished Faculty Awards. This calendar was approved by the
ProvostŐs office, the Academic Senate office and Public relations. Implementation of this process should
allow future committees to spend limited time on administrative tasks and
minimize in-person meetings of the committees.
The committee
received 27 nominations for the awards from faculty members, department chairs,
and staff for the 2008 awards cycle.
Three awardees were selected:
Sarlo Excellence in
Teaching Award (6 nominations received)
Martin Linder, Associate
Professor, Design and Industry, College of Creative Arts
Excellence in
Professional Achievement Award (15 nominations received)
Jules Tygiel, Professor, History,
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Excellence in Service
Award (5 nominations received)
Genie Stowers, Professor, Public
Administration, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
The committee implemented a
new process of sending acknowledgement letters to nominees whose work was
significantly compelling to place them in serious consideration for the award,
and letters of thank you to all nominees.
The committee solicited
nominations for the CSU Wang award and submitted two names to the Provost for
consideration.
IV.
Agenda for the Coming Year
The committee will be
implementing the process developed in 2007-2008 and making revisions as
appropriate.