02.04.22 Faculty Excellence Awards

01. PURPOSE

01.01             The purpose of this policy is to establish an award system for recognizing College of Health Professions’ faculty excellence in Teaching,  Scholarship, and Service, and to establish a process for selecting the awards.

02. POLICY

02.01             It is the belief of the administration of the College of Health Professions that outstanding individual faculty achievements in the areas of Teaching,  Scholarship, and Service should be recognized and rewarded. Up to twelve Faculty Excellence awards may be given annually to recognize excellence in Teaching, Research or Service: three at the Associate/Professor rank, three at the Assistant/Lecturer rank, three at the Clinical Associate/Professor rank and Associate/Professor of Practice rank, and three at the Clinical Assistant/Lecturer rank and Assistant/Professor of Practice and Lecturer rank. Each award, at a minimum, will consist of a suitable award which will be presented to the recipient. All faculty who maintain 50% FTE or more for the calendar year nominated are eligible.  Emergency hires, those not employed for the calendar year, Chairs, Directors, and Deans are not eligible.

03. PROCEDURE

03.01             Faculty Excellence Committee: The Dean will appoint the committee at the beginning of the fall semester of each academic year. The committee will consist of faculty who represent a broad cross-section of the College of Health Professions with one representative per represented program.

03.02             Nominations

a.         The committee chair will request that the Dean’s office distribute digital nomination forms during February of each year. Nomination forms will be sent to all departments and posted on the Dean’s Office web page. The Dean will send an email to all College of Health Professions’ faculty and staff announcing the nomination process. Each department will notify students.

b.        Students may nominate faculty for the Teaching category only. Faculty may nominate for Teaching,  Scholarship, and Service. Self-nominations are not allowed. 

c.         The nomination form will include a deadline for submission electronically to the Dean’s Office.

d.       Each nominated faculty member will be notified by the Dean’s office or the chair of the CHP Faculty Excellence Award Committee.  The individual nominations will not be shared with each nominee.

            03.03             Criteria

a.         Awards are based on commitment and activity, internal and external recognition and impact or significance of endeavors.  These are aligned with the criteria for the University’s awards.

b.        Each nominee who chooses to participate will submit digital supporting documents to the Faculty Excellence Awards site and, by doing so, grants approval to the Faculty Excellence Committee to review his/her documents. All documents will be confidential and only available to the committee.

03.04             Documentation 

a.         Annual Evaluation Report information for the year of nomination (January through December) generated by Faculty Qualifications.

1. Only documentation covering work while serving at Texas State will be considered.

      2. Only portions of the Annual Evaluation relevant to the award category will be used.

            b.            Up to five supporting documents demonstrating  commitment and activity, internal and external recognition, and impact or significance of endeavors over the year. Examples are:

           1)        For all categories:

                        (a)         Letters or statements to support accomplishments. These can be either internal and or external and should not exceed three in number.

                                                2)        For teaching:

(a)          Examples of innovative teaching methods, materials, technology use; number of courses taught and number of students in each course; student evaluations to include overall scores and examples of written comments; if not the instructor of record, a description of activities employed, responsibilities, and student outcomes; sample syllabi; peer evaluations; any other material that supports nomination.

(b)          A narrative to explain accomplishments in the award category and their contribution to student learning. This may include a statement of personal goals or philosophy in the award category and a statement that ties together activities. 

                                                3)        For scholarship: 

(a)          Published, peer reviewed articles; manuscripts submitted; published books; published versus submitted will be considered and must be clearly delineated; if multiple authors, contributions of nominee; grant applications/funded research; presentations at professional conferences; descriptions of research projects in progress; membership on peer review panels; and/or examples of assistance provided to colleagues/students for research projects; any other material that supports nomination.

(b)          A narrative to explain accomplishments in the award category and their contribution. This may include a statement of personal goals or philosophy in the award category and a statement that ties together activities.

                                                4)        For service:

(a)          Membership or leadership positions on department, college, university committees (differentiate membership versus leadership positions); participation or leadership positions on professional organization committees and/or community service activities; any other material that supports nomination.

(b)          A narrative to explain accomplishments in the award category and their contribution. This may include a statement of personal goals or philosophy in the award category and a statement that ties together activities.

5)            Nomination portfolios that do not conform to the documentation outlined above will not be considered.

           03.05     CHP Faculty Excellence Award Committee Recommendations

a.            Upon completion of committee review, the committee chair will submit the recommendations to the Dean of the College who will announce the award recipients at the College of Health Professions Dean’s Fall Gathering held at the beginning of the fall semester.

            03.06             Dean’s Office Responsibilities

a.         Announce nomination process to all college faculty, staff, and students.

b.        Collect nominations.

c.        Order suitable awards.