The Outstanding Performance Awards recognize classified and professional/administrative staff for their outstanding performance and commitment to service. Recipients receive plaques, a $1000 cash award and a letter of appreciation for their personnel files. President James Ramsey also hosts a reception in their honor.

Selection criteria

Recipients should have:

• Exhibited commitment to serve students, the general public and university colleagues.
• Sustained a high-level of productivity and consistent quality of work.
• Demonstrated a high degree of initiative in the performance of functions.
• Displayed exceptional dependability.
• Maintained effective relationships with others.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities.
• Enhanced the university's image through professional publications and public service.

Nominees need not meet all seven criteria for the award, but the nomination must recognize the employee's service orientation.

Nomination Guidelines

• Staff members who have received an Outstanding Performance Award in the past three years are ineligible for the award this year.
• Any other permanent classified or professional/administrative staff member employed at UofL for at least two years and a minimum of one year in his or her current job is eligible.
• This award includes four position categories: professional/administrative, clerical/secretarial, technical/paraprofessional and skilled craft/service workers.
• Nominations can come from any member of the campus community: co-workers, supervisors, faculty, staff, students, etc.
• Nominators should describe the complexity of the employee's job duties and should provide specific information about productivity, quality of work and outstanding performance; however, nominations must not include annual performance appraisals.
• Nominating letters should not exceed three pages. The committee will seek supporting information from each nominee's supervisor or unit head.
• Individuals who are meritorious will qualify for consideration, but being meritorious does not automatically qualify an individual for this award.

Selection

Representatives from each unit form the universitywide screening committee. The committee makes award selections in each of the four categories, with 25 percent of the eligible nominees receiving awards. The number of awards in the categories may not exceed one-fourth the number of respective nominations received.

For more information about the awards, call Sandy Garcia at 852-5543.