OUTSTANDING PROFESSOR AWARDS PROGRAM

ACADEMIC SENATE POLICY S78-34

At its meeting of May 22, 1978, the Academic Senate approved the following policy:

1. Outstanding professorial performance, which must include excellence in teaching, should be encouraged, rewarded, and publicly acknowledged by a program of official awards.

2. This program shall be known as the "Outstanding Professor Awards Program".

3. While these awards are to be made primarily for excellence of teaching, significant achievements are expected in scholarly inquiry or creativity, in professional activities, and in service to the campus and community.

4. All full-time faculty members shall be eligible for nominations for such awards.

5. Nominations shall be accepted from three sources:

Alumni Association

a. The awards selection committee shall request that the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association notify annually all members of the Alumni Association of the awards and invite nominations.

b. An appropriate nomination form shall be made available to the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. This form will indicate that while these awards are to be made primarily for excellence of teaching, significant achievements are expected in scholarly inquiry or creativity, in professional activities, and in service to the campus and community. The form will also request the nominator to comment directly and indirectly and pertinently about the nominee.

c. In addition to the name of the nominee, the nomination form will request information such as: date and title of course taken with him/her, degree held by the alumnus/alumna, date thereof, signature of alumnus/alumna.

Students

The current year's selection committee shall advertise the awards program on campus and accept nominations from either previously or currently enrolled students on an appropriate form similar to that provided under 5b and c above.

Faculty Members

The current year's selection committee shall notify all faculty members of the awards program and, through the form similar to that provided under 5b and c above, invite nominations for the awards.

6. A selection committee, which shall designate the recipients of each award, shall be assembled annually in the following manner:

a. The Academic Senate, through its appropriate procedures, shall designate five members of the faculty.

b. One representative from the Alumni Association shall be invited to serve on the selection committee.

c. The President of the Associate Students or his/her designee shall be invited to serve on the selection committee.

d. The Provost or his/her designee, shall serve on the committee.

7. All nominations shall be channeled to the current year's selection committee.

a. The Outstanding Professor Awards Selection Committee shall ask each nominee in writing to authorize (a) access to his or her official file by all faculty members serving on the committee; and (b) permission for the entire committee to discuss information so gathered in their deliberation. All information gleaned from official files shall be held in strict confidence by the entire committee. Materials will not be removed from any official file, but records made by faculty members on the committee regarding achievements pertinent to the award will be the subject of committee deliberations at confidential meetings.

b. The committee may seek additional information, for example, by interviewing the nominee, by surveying current and former students and consulting qualified persons in the nominee's field about the nominee's scholarship and professional achievements. Materials so gathered and all nominations received from each candidate shall be placed in the nominee's official file, with the nominee's permission, after the committee's work is concluded for the year.

c. All information gleaned from the nominee's official files shall be held in strict confidence by the selection committee.

d. Consideration of nominees will be limited to a three-year period including the year of their latest nomination.

8. The type and number of the awards will be determined annually by the selection committee, except that the committee shall present no more than four awards.

9. A recipient of the award shall not be eligible for a future Outstanding Professor Award at this University. Nominations by SFSU for the Trustees' Outstanding Professor Award shall be limited to past recipients of the University award. Procedures for selecting nominees for the Trustees' award shall be identical to those for the University award, particularly with respect to authorization for access to official files.

**APPROVED BY PRESIDENT ROMBERG, JUNE 1, 1978**