Student Mentoring Awards Guidelines
THE COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES EXCELLENCE IN STUDENT MENTORING AWARDS
Application Criteria and Guidelines
Deadline: February 9th, 2024
The CNS Excellence in Student Mentoring Awards recognize and honor faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentoring CNS graduate and undergraduate students. Two awards will be made each year: one for graduate student mentoring and one for undergraduate student mentoring.
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 any CNS student or faculty member.
Award Criteria:
- Successful nominees will have demonstrated exceptional mentoring of graduate and/or undergraduate students. Exceptional mentoring may include mentoring of individual students, facilitating/creating mentoring communities, and/or building infrastructure to support student 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 CNS faculty members or students (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 student mentoring activities prepared by the faculty member being nominated (maximum two pages).
- An abbreviated CV, made pertinent to the award criteria (maximum five 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 Student Mentoring Awards are due no later than 5 p.m. on February 9th, 2024.