Faculty Peer Mentoring Award
THE COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES EXCELLENCE IN FACULTY PEER MENTORING AWARD
Application Criteria and Guidelines
Deadline: February 9, 2024
The CNS Excellence in Faculty Peer Mentoring Award recognizes and honors faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentoring fellow faculty members. One award will be made each year.
Eligibility
- All CNS faculty are eligible to be nominated for this award.
- Any person who received this award in the past five years is not eligible.
- Nominations can be made by CNS department heads/chairs or by any CNS faculty member.
Award Criteria:
- Successful nominees will have demonstrated exceptional mentoring of one or more other faculty members. Exceptional mentoring may include mentoring of individual faculty, facilitating/creating mentoring communities, and/or building infrastructure to support faculty peer mentoring.
- Nominees may be at any stage of their career.
The Nominating Process:
The following documentation should be assembled into one pdf document:
- A nomination letter written by the department head/chair or any CNS faculty member (maximum two pages). The letter should:
- advocate and outline the case for why and how the nominee has met the award criteria;
- indicate the relationship between the nominator and nominee.
- A summary of the nominee’s faculty mentoring activities prepared by the faculty member being nominated (maximum two pages).
- Up to three letters of support from colleagues, peers, and/or students. The letters should:
- demonstrate how the nominee meets the criteria for the award;
- describe the relationship between the letter writer and nominee(s).
Deadline:
Nominating materials for the CNS Excellence in Faculty Peer Mentoring Award is due no later than 5 p.m. on February 9th, 2024.