College/Distinguished Teaching Award

Deadline: December 15

About the College of Business Distinguished Teaching Award

In the fall and spring semesters, business students nominate the faculty member who has made the most positive impact on their educational experience. The college’s Scholarships, Honors and Awards Committee reviews the nominations and determines the top three finalists. The top three finalists will submit a nomination packet to be reviewed by the committee. The committee reviews the nominees’ submitted packet and selects the winner. The Distinguished Teaching Award is presented to a tenured or tenure-track professor. This person’s name is forwarded to the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Office as the college's selection for the College Distinguished Teaching Award.

About Nebraska's Distinguished Teaching Award

On the campus level, 15 faculty members will be given distinguished teaching awards upon the recommendation of the colleges. These faculty members will receive a $1,000 cash award through funds provided by the Nebraska Legislature. The distribution among colleges is as follows:

Agriculture: 1
Arts and Sciences: 6
Business: 1
Engineering: 2
Education and Human Sciences: 3
Fine and Performing Arts: 1
Journalism and Mass Communications: 1

Eligibility

Nominee must be a tenured or tenure-track professor for a full year. Once a faculty member has received the Distinguished Teaching Award, they will not be eligible for three years following the award.

Nomination process

Top three finalists will be notified and will submit the following supporting materials in one complete file in Word or PDF format:

• Your current vita
• A statement of your teaching philosophy
• Syllabi of at least two courses taught in the last year
• Summary of teaching effectiveness from at least two courses, including teaching evaluation data (qualitative and quantitative), course enrollments, average course GPA, dept. average for that level of course

Timeline

May 1: Call for Nominations
May 15: Reminder for Nominations
November 1: Call for Nominations
December 1: Reminder for Nominations
December 15: Nominations Due
January 1: Top Three Finalists Notified
January 15: Supporting Material Due
January 20: Committee Selection Due

Committee Responsible for Final Selections: Scholarships, Honors and Awards Committee

Distinguished Research Award

Deadline: December 15

About

The College of Business Executive Committee has decided that the college should offer a research award for post-tenure faculty members (i.e., tenured associate and full professors) in order to encourage their efforts in research. The amount of each award is $2,000. The annual Research Awards will be decided by the Research and Professorship Review Committee (RPRC). Criteria for the award are outlined below. The criteria for the award are outlined below:

Nomination process

• Faculty members may nominate themselves or be nominated by other faculty members (e.g., the department chair) for the award. The nomination should be in a short letter outlining the reasons the faculty member is deserving of the award (see the criteria listed below), and should enclose a CV.
• The Associate Dean will automatically nominate faculty members if they have publications appearing in journals on the Summer List of Journals (i.e., the list used for summer funding) during the past calendar year; in this instance, faculty will be invited to provide documentation, including a CV and short letter.

Eligibility Period

• Faculty members may be nominated each year until winning the award.
• Once a faculty member has received the research award, he/she will not be eligible for three years following the award.

Criteria for Receiving the Award

The criteria for receiving the awards are the level of research productivity over the last calendar year and the quality of the research produced, as indicated by the following list of suggestive (but not exhaustive) indicators of quality. It is ultimately up to the nominee to provide a convincing case of the quality of her/his research using both subjective and objective criteria:

• Quality of journals in which articles are published, based on the Summer Research List of journals or journal rankings by the Impact Factors outlined in the Journal Citation Reports (available through the ISI Web of Knowledge in the Nebraska Libraries' electronic databases).
• Citations to past research, available through the Web of Science in the ISI Web of Knowledge in the Nebraska Libraries' electronic databases, or based on Google Scholar metrics (e.g., the H-factor).
• Importance of the research questions addressed in the research program (i.e., theoretical, practical, educational, or university importance).
• Number of research grants obtained.
• Importance and number of research monographs or high quality books/book chapters.

Deadlines and responsibilities:

12/15: Faculty members upload publications and awards data to https://go.unl.edu/cobaddpubs. The Associate Dean for Faculty and Research (ADFR) downloads a spreadsheet of number of faculty publications in journals on the list of journals eligible for summer funding and provides this information to the Research and Professorship Review Committee (RPPC).

12/15: Nominations for awards should be submitted through the button above. The ADFR downloads the nominations and submits them to the RPPC.

3/1: RPRC reports award winners to the Dean’s Office and sends award letters to faculty. Awards are made at the annual Award Event at the end of the semester.

Faculty Service Award

Deadline: December 15

About the Faculty Service Award

The annual Faculty Service Award recognizes the contributions of a faculty member to the accomplishment of the service mission of the college. The award is given to a faculty member who has distinguished themselves through service to the university, college, department, community or profession. The award is based upon a record of sustained performance that, in the estimation of the selection committee, has significantly contributed to the college's service mission.

Nomination process

Faculty are invited to nominate their colleagues for this award. A letter of nomination should include the nominee's vita and a persuasive statement as to nominee's achievements in the area of service.

Eligibility

• Nominees must be permanent faculty (tenured, tenure-track or professor of practice). Once a faculty member has received the award, they will not be eligible for three years following the award.

Timeline

May 1: Call for Nominations
May 15: Reminder for Nominations
November 1: Call for Nominations
December 1: Reminder for Nominations
December 15: Nominations Due
January 20: Committee Selection Due

Committee Responsible for Final Selections: Scholarships, Honors and Awards Committee

D’vee Buss Students First Award

Deadline: December 15

About the D’vee Buss Students First Award

The D’vee Buss Students First Award is presented annually to a staff member who exemplifies a student-centered approach. This award recognizes staff for unique or extraordinary efforts and/or sustained commitment to the philosophy of “students first.”

Nomination process

Staff can be nominated by their departments, faculty, staff or students. The Scholarships, Honors and Awards Committee makes the final selection based on the record of the nominees.

Eligibility

• Nominee must be employed permanently, .50 FTE or more in the university.
• Nominee must have a College of Business appointment that supports students.
• Employee cannot be on corrective probation.
• The Students First Award can be received once every three years.
• Nominee for either of the two staff awards can also be considered for the other award if deemed appropriate by the committee.

Timeline

May 1: Call for Nominations
May 15: Reminder for Nominations
November 1: Call for Nominations
December 1: Reminder for Nominations
December 15: Nominations Due
December 20: Committee Selection Due

Committee Responsible for Final Selections: Scholarships, Honors and Awards Committee

Ph.D. Student Research Award

Deadline: December 15

About

The Ph.D. Student Research Award is presented to the student with the most impressive research record.

Nomination Process

• The student is normally nominated by the department’s Ph.D. Director, but may be nominated by any faculty member.
• The nomination should be in a letter outlining the reasons the Ph.D. student is deserving of the award.
• Students may also be automatically nominated by the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, based on information in their CVs, provided by 12/15 each year to their department’s Lead Staff.
• The Ph.D. student should provide copies of all supporting material.

Eligibility Period

• A Ph.D. student may be nominated in any year prior to receiving his/her terminal degree.
• Once a Ph.D. student has received the research award, he/she will not be eligible again for the award.

Criteria for Receiving the Award

The criteria for receiving the awards are the level of research productivity over the last two calendar years. Students are eligible if:

• they have a paper(s) in press or published at a refereed journal
• they submitted a paper(s) to a refereed journal
• they have a paper(s) accepted for presentation at a national conference.

Awards will be based on the quality of the research produced, as evaluated by the RPRC.

Deadlines and responsibilities:

12/15: Faculty members upload their publications and awards data for the past calendar year to https://go.unl.edu/cobphdPAD. The Associate Dean for Faculty and Research (ADFR) downloads a spreadsheet of number of Ph.D. student publications and provides this information to the Research and Professorship Review Committee (RPPC).

12/15: Nominations for awards should be submitted through the button above. The ADFR downloads the nominations and submits them to the RPPC.

3/1: RPRC reports award winners to the Dean’s Office and sends award letters to faculty. Awards are made at the annual Award Event at the end of the semester.

Committee Responsible for Final Selections: Research & Professorship Review Committee

Dean's Coin Award

Nominate at Any Time

The Dean's Coin is presented to individuals who have gone above and beyond to help others in the College of Business.

Anyone can nominate a colleague anytime by clicking the link below.

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