SBS Outstanding Mentor Award

The SBS Outstanding Mentor Award recognizes and encourages faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentorship of students. The intent of the award is to celebrate faculty who have effectively guided students at UMass individually or more broadly through the creation of mentoring communities or building infrastructure for the mentorship of graduate students and/or undergraduate students. Award recipients will receive an award of $1000.

Award Eligibility

Nominees must be faculty members at any stage of their career who fit the criteria described below. Nominators may recognize the many forms that mentorship can take.

Examples of mentorship: creating a respectful and supportive environment to help mentees move forward in their career, scholarship, and/or teaching goals; helping mentees take full advantage of institutional, academic and professional opportunities; embracing a philosophy of diversity and inclusion inside academia and a commitment to integrating mentees into the broader culture of the discipline; demonstrating leadership and initiative at the program level to improve mentorship access and quality for mentees; facilitating a mentorship community, whether formal or informal, that enhances or expands mentorship opportunities.

Award Timeline

The previous deadline for nominations was March 25, 2022. The upcoming deadline is March 24, 2023.

Nomination Criteria

Nominations may be submitted by current and former students, staff or faculty. The nomination process is designed to be similar to the Graduate School’s Mentor Award process so that submissions can be sent to SBS if they were not selected by the Graduate School. Nominations should include the following: letter of nomination from nominating person; nominee's CV; and three to five additional letters of support from current and former students, staff, and/or faculty.

Nominator Information

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Nominee Information

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File Uploads

Letter of Nomination *

Three pages maximum.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf doc docx.

Nominee's CV *

Five pages maximum. The CV should include material that addresses the mentor criteria.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf doc docx.

Letters of Support

Three to five additional letters of support from current and former students, staff, and/or faculty.

Letter of Support 1 *