Call for Nominations – 2025 Awards for 2024 Performance

Please take the time to nominate your faculty and staff colleagues for an A&S award. Awards will be given at the College’s Celebration of A&S Excellence in the Spring. The winners of the A&S Distinguished Faculty Awards will be forwarded as the College’s nominations for the University-wide awards of the same name. The winner and up to three finalists of the GTA Excellence in Teaching Award will be forwarded to the Graduate School as the College’s nominations for the University-wide awards of the same name

Process
  • Longlist nominations for Distinguished Faculty Awards (DFA) require only a CV and a brief rationale, not a chair’s letter.
  • Nominations for other, non-DFA faculty and staff awards require only a brief rationale.
  • Committees will create short lists from those materials and follow up with nominators to obtain additional materials, e.g., a letter from the chair, which are needed for the university-wide awards.
Timeline
  • 4 weeks for Distinguished Faculty Award (DFA) longlist nominations: November 14 – December 12, 2024. Extended to January 9, 2025!
  • 2 weeks for DFA judges to determine shortlists nominees and request further information on them: January 10-23, 2025.
  • 3 weeks for DFA judges to convene and choose winners: January 24 – February 13, 2025 (deadline for forwarding DFA winners to university-wide awards is February 15).
  • Non-DFA Awards have no longlist/shortlist process, therefore those nominations are due by January 23, 2025 (a 10-week nomination period).

 

Awards by Committee

  1. Awards Judged by the Standing Committee on Research
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Research – Basic and Applied Sciences
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Research – Social Sciences
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Research – Humanities
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Research – Creative and Performing Arts
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Research – Career Achievement
  2. Awards Judged by the Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Awards
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Teaching
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Part-time Teaching
    • Innovative Teaching Award (Faculty)
    • GTA Excellence in Teaching Award Nominations extended to Friday, February 28 (no shortlist/longlist process)
    • Outstanding Director of Undergraduate Studies Award (Faculty)
    • Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies Award (Faculty)
    • Outstanding Graduate Mentor (Faculty)
    • Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor (Faculty)
  3. Awards Judged by the Ad Hoc Committee on Service Awards
  • Distinguished Faculty Award – Service – 5 Awards 
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Service – Service to UofL
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Service – Service to the Profession
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Service – Service to the community, KY, or the region
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Service – National/International Service
    • Distinguished Faculty Award – Service – Career of Service (combination of the above)
  • Awards Judged by the Standing Committee on DEI
    • Diversity Champion Award (Faculty)
    • Diversity Champion Award (Staff)
  • Awards Judged by the Community Engagement Advisory Council
    • Community Engagement Award (Faculty)
    • Community Engagement Award (Staff)
  • Awards Judged by the Staff Association/Last Year’s Winners
    • Outstanding Performance Award – 5 Awards (Staff)
    • Outstanding Supervisor Award (Staff)
    • Note: The Outstanding Supervisor (Faculty) award has been discontinued and replaced by the Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award, judged by the Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Awards, above.