The purpose of the Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award is to annually select a Tarleton State University faculty member who has shown exemplary performance in scholarship as per the eligibility requirements for the award. Please visit this link for the requisite paperwork.

Eligibility for the Excellence in Scholarship Award

• Individuals who are eligible for this award are full-time faculty members to include administrators holding joint faculty appointments. Award nominees must have held such positions at Tarleton State University for at least three (3) years prior to the year of award eligibility. Furthermore, the university-wide award recipient will not be eligible to receive the award for the next three calendar years beginning with the 2003-2004 inaugural academic year selection (such that the 2003-2004 university-wide recipient will not be eligible for award consideration until the 2007-2008 academic year).

Eligible Scholarly and Creative Activities

• To be eligible for nomination, a prospective nominee must be involved in one or more activities such as the following:

a. Engaged in creative activity such as shows, recitals, recordings, musical performances, or lighting, set, or costume design.

-and/or-

b. Published or presented research (funded or non-funded):

i. authored books and/or journal articles

ii. authored monographs or chapters in books

iii. conducted and published research (funded or non-funded) for which he/she presents scholarly papers or makes comparable presentations at professional meetings

iv. conducted and published collaborative research involving faculty and/or student colleagues.

-and/or-

c. conducted state, national, or international-level seminars, workshops, or comparable creative activities in a scholarly environment.

To initiate the nomination process each academic year, the Provost/Vice-President for Academic Affairs will initiate a call to the Deans to announce the award nomination and subsequent selection processes.

College-Level Nomination

•  A faculty member can self-nominate or be nominated by a departmental faculty colleague, who will notify the faculty senator in the respective department. The department faculty senator will then provide the nominee with an application packet by the second Monday in February.

• In addition to addressing the criteria in the application packet, the nominee will describe the contribution that the scholarly activities have made to his/her academic discipline (not to his/her department/college or the University).

A nominated faculty member who chooses to submit a completed application packet will deliver it to the office of his/her respective academic dean by the first Monday in March.

  Multi-level Institutional Selection Committees

• Each academic college will establish a committee to select an overall college-level nominee.

• College-Level Committees

  a. The college dean will select a college-level selection committee to be composed of two faculty members from each academic department of the college, with one of these individuals being the department's faculty senator.

  b. The dean will serve as the chair of the college-level committee.

  c. An award applicant cannot serve on the committee.

  d. If the dean is an applicant, a department head from the college will be selected by the VPAA to chair the committee.

  e. Should a faculty senator be an applicant, the dean (or VPAA) will select another faculty member from the department.

  f. The committee chair will vote only in the case of a tie.

  g. The college-level committee will determine operating procedures prior to the first Monday in March.

  h. Each college selection committee will forward the application packet of the college-level nominee to the university-wide selection committee by the first Monday in April.

• University-Wide Committee

a. The committee will be composed of one faculty senator from each academic college.

b. An applicant for the college-level nomination may not serve on the university-wide committee.

c. The college-level faculty senators will select a colleague to chair the university-wide committee.

d. The university-wide committee will determine its operating procedures prior to the first Monday in April.

Presentation of the University-Wide Excellence in Scholarship Award

• The university-wide recipient will be announced at the Tarleton State University spring graduation ceremony, and will receive a $1,500 cash award at that time.
• Furthermore, individual overall college-level award nominees will be recognized within each College. There is an expectation that each College will provide recognition to its nominee in the form of a framed certificate/plaque with appropriate notification of the selection with the institution's public information office.