The Faculty Senate Awards began in 1994 to recognize faculty for excellence in teaching and outstanding research and scholarly activity. In 1998 the Faculty Senate Awards changed to include an award for meritorious service to the university and\/or profession.<\/p>\n
The Faculty Senate gives awards each year to deserving faculty members in the following areas:<\/p>\n
The awards are given by school with the exception of the School of Arts and Sciences.\u00a0 Due to the large number of faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences, these are given using the old divisions of Arts and Letters [Art, Communication, and Theater; English, Humanities and Languages; Music; and Social Sciences] and Science and Technology [Biological Sciences; Chemistry, Computer and Physical Sciences; and Mathematics]. Faculty, therefore, \u201ccompete\u201d only against other faculty nominated from their respective schools. There is also a Lifetime Achievement Award, a Professor of the Year award, and an Adjunct of the Year award (restricted to excellence in teaching only and based on the current calendar year because of turnover). A total of 15 awards are given to outstanding full-time and adjunct faculty.\u00a0 Winners are announced and awards presented at the Faculty-Staff Recognition Awards ceremony at the end of the spring semester.<\/p>\n
Faculty members may be nominated by students, other faculty members, administrators, staff, or alumni for the awards. Nominations are generally open beginning in the end of November and continue until the end of January.\u00a0 Nominations must be submitted online. Nominations must also include a written explanation. The event is publicized both before and during the nomination period in the following ways: information emailed to all faculty (which faculty are asked to read in classes), information emailed to all staff and students, posted on Blackboard and posted on Southeastern\u2019s home page.<\/p>\n
Once nominations close, faculty members that have been nominated are sent an email notifying them that they have been nominated for a Faculty Senate award. They are also told that they may send in an electronic one-page letter of support describing why they think they are deserving of the award. If anyone is nominated in more than one category they will receive multiple notification emails so that they may respond addressing each category separately. Nominated faculty are generally given two weeks to respond. After response letters are received, all of the information is put onto a website for the official voting procedure.\u00a0 Early March fulltime faculty are given a website address to vote. The website has a list of each faculty member in their school nominated in each category, all of the nomination letters, and all of the letters of support. Librarians would be in competition for the service and research awards.\u00a0 Since librarians don\u2019t belong to a particular school, librarian nominees would be added to the college with the least nominees for service for the school vote.\u00a0 The faculty use this information to vote 1st<\/sup>\u00a0and 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0choice for each category and may only vote one time. The voting process takes approximately 1-1\/2 weeks.<\/p>\n The results are tabulated by the computer.\u00a0 For the Adjunct of the Year Award, the top candidates based on numbers of nominations will be voted upon by Faculty Senate by another website vote.\u00a0 The Planning Committee narrows the nominee pool for Teaching.\u00a0 The top nominees (about 5) are selected by the number of votes received during the voting.<\/p>\n In late March the faculty from each school vote on the top nominees for Teaching for their school.\u00a0 Faculty vote for 1st<\/sup>\u00a0and 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0choice for each category.\u00a0 Awardees are determined by the highest number of 1st<\/sup>\u00a0choice votes.\u00a0 (Exception: alternative awardee is determined by second highest number of 1st<\/sup>\u00a0choice received if the original awardee is the recipient of the Professor of the Year). \u00a0Ties will be broken by the number of 2nd<\/sup>choice votes.<\/p>\n The Planning Committee determines the nominees for Professor of the Year.\u00a0 The faculty are eligible if they have been nominated in all three individual categories for their school and have at least one vote in each individual category (Teaching, Scholarship and Service).\u00a0 One nominee may be selected each of the four schools: JMSB, EBS, A&S (Arts & Letters), A&S (Science &Technology).\u00a0 Nominees are determined by the highest overall total number of votes in all three categories voted by the faculty from each school.\u00a0 Ties are broken using the number of faculty at large votes.\u00a0 In early April the Faculty Senate will then vote for 1st<\/sup>\u00a0and 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0choice from the nominees by website.\u00a0 The awardee is determined by the highest number of 1st<\/sup>\u00a0choice votes.\u00a0 Ties are broken using the number of 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0choice votes.\u00a0 The awardee for the Professor of the Year becomes ineligible for any individual award<\/p>\n In early February a solicitation for nominations for Lifetime Achievement will be emailed to faculty at large.\u00a0 The nominee for Lifetime Achievement must have a minimum of 25 years of service to Southeastern, including a minimum of 10 years of tenured service and has not previously been a recipient of the award.\u00a0 Faculty members nominated for Lifetime Achievement Award must submit a curriculum vitae that clearly documents long-term impact on learning of students, long-term service for the institution community and long-term success of scholarship and professional achievement.\u00a0 In addition the nominee must provide two supporting letters (one from a faculty colleague and one from an administrator or department chair).\u00a0 The nominee may submit supplemental documentation if appropriate.\u00a0 Examples may include, but are not limited to teaching portfolio, creative designs\/portfolio, creative teaching material, and copies of publications, including books.\u00a0 Senators will vote by secret ballot in early April for the Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0 The awardee is determined by the highest number of votes received during voting by the Faculty Senate.\u00a0 Ties will be broken by a secret ballot of the 7-member Faculty Senate Executive Committee.\u00a0 Because of the requirements for the award, it may not be awarded every year.<\/p>\n The official names of the awards are:<\/p>\n The Faculty Senate Awards began in 1994 to recognize faculty for excellence in teaching and outstanding research and scholarly activity. In 1998 the Faculty Senate Awards changed to include an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-with-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTabulation of Results<\/h3>\n
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