Faculty Senate Honors and Awards Committee
Minutes of
Meeting called to order at
Those present: Mohsen Badiey, Aparna Bagdi, Bob Davis, Rhonda Hyde, Katharine Kerrane, Dennis Mertz, Matthew Robinson, Zachary Schafer, Jonathan Urick
Minutes of the last meeting were approved.
Rhonda Hyde, Chair, welcomed new members Jonathan Urick, a Junior Economics major, and Matthew Robinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences
Dr. Hyde noted that Linda Gottfredson will serve as interim chair during the month of March 2007 due to a professional conference in which Dr. Hyde is involved.
Update on Honors Day Awards booklet: Mr. Davis reported that there are three criteria for inclusion in the Honors Day booklet from this point moving forward:
a) newly established endowed scholarships with a minimum of $25,000
b) Expendable scholarships and awards with a minimum of $1,000 annually for five years
c) Awards and honors currently grandfathered (to be reviewed by committee members)
Ms. Kerrane and Mr. Schafer offered to assist on the review of current awards and honors
The committee reviewed eligibility requirements for excellence in teaching award nominations:
a) those who have received the award within the last ten years are removed for current consideration
b) Part-time, temporary and adjunct faculty are ineligible
c) Dr. Hyde will work with Human Resources to obtain eligible faculty
The committee reviewed alternative methods for contacting students for nominations for the Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Advising Awards. Student representatives suggested that, in addition to current practice of e-mail notification, we also add contact through facebook.com either by direct e-mail within facebook, or by placing an ad in facebook.com We will also suggest contact through various departmental electronic notification. Mr. Davis will check with John Brennan in Public Relations and Cynthia Cummings in Student Life regarding the appropriateness of using facebook.
The committee reviewed the wording on the current nomination
forms. Currently, there is no active
hyperlink on “Qualities to consider” on the nomination form—that needs to be
fixed. The committee talked at length
about the issue of solicitation of nominations.
For our next meeting, Mr. Urick will propose
some appropriate text for a drop down box under the heading of “What prompted
you to make this nomination?
The meeting was adjourned at