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Teaching Awards

The awards are given to recognize faculty who have distinguished themselves as outstanding teachers for at least five years and have a minimum of two years' track record of promoting instructional improvements for the programs/departments. Each CSU institution may nominate a campus-based awardee and a system-wide awardee may be chosen from this group. Each community college may nominate a campus-based awardee and a system-wide awardee may be chosen from this group. During each academic year, the Board of Regents might award up to 18 Teaching Awards.
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Research Awards

The awards are given to recognize faculty from the state universities who are doing exceptional research/creative work. Each CSU institution may nominate a campus-based awardee and a system-wide awardee may be chosen from this group. During each academic year, the Board of Regents might award up to 5 Research Awards.
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Scholarly Excellence Awards

The awards are given to recognize faculty at the community colleges who are doing exceptional scholarly work befitting the community college mission. Each community college may nominate a campus-based awardee and a system-wide awardee may be chosen from this group. During each academic year, the Board of Regents might award up to 13 Scholarly Excellence Awards.
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Adjunct Faculty Teaching Awards

The awards are given to recognize part-time faculty who have distinguished themselves as outstanding teachers with a track record of increasing student learning and promoting instructional improvements for the programs/departments. There are no campus-based awardees for this award. Each of the 17 CSCU institutions may elect to nominate a candidate for an adjunct faculty teaching award and from this pool two applicants might be selected to receive system-wide awards. During each academic year, the Board of Regents might award 2 Adjunct Faculty Teaching Awards.
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Although campus-based and system-wide awardees are not eligible to be nominated for an award over the course of the three subsequent years, non-award winning nominees from previous years may be nominated again in succeeding years.

Each institutional selection procedure will be developed and implemented under the leadership of the respective chief academic officer. Institutional nominations will be submitted electronically by its president to the Board of Regents through the office of the president or the chief academic officer. Nominations will be reviewed by selection committees that will make recommendations to the Board's Academic and Student Affairs Committee for its review and subsequent endorsement to the full Board for its approval.

Awards

Campus-Based Awards

*Nomination only

System-Wide Awards

**to be selected from the respective campus-based nominations - the presumptive campus-based award recipients

Timeline

• 2020 Oct 2, 2020
  • Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs will issue Call for Nominations for the Board of Regents Faculty Award
• 2020 Oct 2, 2020 - Jan 15, 2021
  • ConnSCU Institutions will circulate Call for Nominations throughout their respective communities; and begin implementation of their particular process and procedures for the submission, review and selection of nominations for the various Awards under the leadership of their chief academic officer. Institutional process and procedures will include specific timelines for internal nominations and selections.
• 2020 Oct 9-30, 2020
  • Office of Academic Affairs will finalize memberships of the various System Awards selection committees - per awards' guidelines, the award recipients from the previous year will be invited to serve on this year's respective selection committees
• 2020 by Dec 18, 2020
  • Office of Academic Affairs will provide selection committee memberships with orientations regarding the review and selection process
• 2021 by Jan 15, 2021
  • Institutional presidents forward nomination packages for the respective BOR Faculty Award to the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs via email to Dr. Ken Klucznik at klucznikk@ct.edu and copied to Noreen Wilson at wilsonn@ct.edu
• 2021 Feb 5, 2021 - Mar 5, 2021
  • The respective system awards selection committees, coordinated by Office of Academic Affairs, will review and assess the campus-based nominations for the respective Awards and make their selections for nominations to the Board of Regents for its decision regarding the final selections
• 2021 by Mar 19, 2021
  • Office of Academic Affairs prepares Staff Report with slate of nominations for campus-based Awards and the selection committees' nominations for the System Awards
• 2021 Apr 2021
  • Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee reviews the Institutions' nominations for the campus-based Awards and the recommendations of the System Awards selection committees and makes recommendations to Board of Regents for the final selections
• 2021 Apr 2021
  • Board of Regents accepts or rejects the Institutions' nominations for the campus-based Awards and makes final decisions regarding the System Award recipients
• 2021 Apr 2021 - May 2021
  • Per their own scheduling, ConnSCU Institutions conduct recognition ceremonies honoring recipients of the Board of Regents Faculty Awards
  • BOR Faculty Awards recipients will be acknowledged at Board of Regents' May meeting