Distinguished Scholarship Award
2007-2008 Nomination Period is now closed
The Academic Senate Distinguished Scholarship Award Committee invites nominations for the Distinguished Scholarship Award. Each year two awards are presented, each accompanied by a cash prize of $1250.
These awards recognize achievement in scholarship and creative activity across the entire range of disciplines represented at Cal Poly. They honor work conducted primarily at Cal Poly and celebrate specific accomplishments rather than general achievements. Both junior and senior faculty are eligible for the awards.
Faculty, students, and alumni may submit nominations, and faculty members may nominate themselves. All nominations must be submitted through the online nomination form.
All nominees must be current members of the Cal Poly faculty who have completed at least three years of full-time service or its equivalent. Candidates must currently be active in teaching in the specialty areas for which they were hired.
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Selection
Criteria:
1) Importance to students, as evidenced by any of the following:
- Excellence
in teaching which derives from research and professional development
activities
- Excellence
in inculcating, motivating and promoting R&PD activities
- Quality
and significance of associated senior projects, theses, etc.
- Curriculum
improvement and enhanced teaching/learning by self and others
- Quality
of the impact on students’ experience
2) Quality
(impact/usefulness) of the creative work (emphasized over quantity)
as evidenced by any of the following:
- Helping
to improve the human condition and quality of life
- Contributions
to knowledge and practice
- Wide
peer recognition of the work as substantial, seminal, scholarly
3) Use of the nominee’s ideas and other creative products by
practitioners
- Degree
of innovation
- Publications
or presentations in refereed media
- Other
books, chapters, articles, teaching cases, and instructional materials
- Presentations
or performances at peer recognized events
4) Importance to Cal Poly, evidenced by any of the following:
- Enhanced
status of Cal Poly or its academic units
- Significant
grants and contracts received
- Mentoring
and facilitating the professional development of other faculty and
staff
- Curriculum
innovation in ways that are important to industry and/or practice
PREVIOUS
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AWARD RECIPIENTS
| 2007-2008 |
| Jones, Terry - Earth & Soil Sciences |
| Marlow, Michael - Economics |
| 2006-2007 |
| Moline, Mark - BioScience |
| Russell, Craig - Music |
| 2005-2006 |
| Biezad, Dan - Aerospace Engineering |
| Morris, Andrew - History |
| 2004-2005 |
| Basor, Estelle - Mathematics |
| Shani, Rami - Management |
| 2003-2004 |
| Burt,
Charles - Bioresource & Ag Engineering |
| Ruggles, Joanne - Art & Design |
Last
modified:
October 9, 2008
