President’s Distinguished Faculty Awards
Every year outstanding achievements of UHCL faculty are recognized in the areas of teaching, research and service through the President’s Distinguished Faculty Awards. UHCL faculty submit letters of nomination to the Office of the Provost in January (see Definitions & Guidelines below). Nominations can be either mailed to Box 74 or delivered to B2525. The Provost then appoints a faculty committee, which evaluates the nominations. Winners are announced and a cash award is presented at the Faculty/Staff Awards ceremony held at the UHCL campus in April.
Definitions and Guidelines for Selection: Definition of Faculty Honors The UH-Clear Lake Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes exemplary accomplishment in the craft of teaching, wherein the recipient is recognized as a master teacher by his or her peers. A master teacher is a model of substantive learning and rapport with students.
The UH-Clear Lake Distinguished Research Award recognizes professional accomplishment in an academic discipline or field of creativity through published work, exhibitions, or similar activity, as recognized by peers for high contribution to the intellectual growth of an academic area or for significant creative accomplishment.
The UH-Clear Lake Distinguished Service Award recognizes significant accomplishments in professional leadership in extending services to the Gulf Coast Region, to the profession and/or to the University.
Procedures for Selecting Recipients of the
Only UHCL faculty members may nominate colleagues for one of the President's Distinguished Faculty Awards.
A nomination should be made by a letter of no more than two pages in length, stating reasons for the recommendation. It should be sent to the Office of the Provost at Box 74. A recent curriculum vitae should be included with the letter of nomination.
A faculty committee designated by the Provost will review each nomination. Candidates will not be informed of their nominations unless the committee decides to pursue some facet of a particular nomination.
The committee may correspond with a nominee for clarification of some point. In that letter, the committee may invite a nominee to submit supportive evidence, consistent with committee guidelines.
The selection committee may also invite faculty members from the nominee's academic area to comment on the nominee's discipline-specific contributions. Generally speaking, such input will be solicited by the committee only in cases where the committee is without other corroborating evidence.
Committee members are not eligible to be candidates themselves and may not nominate candidates for these awards.
All nominations and other materials will be deemed confidential.
These are life-time achievement awards. Therefore no faculty member may be selected more than once in the same category.
The committee will consider nominations from the previous year in the event the committee deems that the number of nominations in any one category is insufficient to make a selection
The committee is at liberty to call for additional nominations and extend the award deadline by one week.
