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Chancellor-Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence: Call for Nominations

March 18, 2022

Dear Colleagues:

The 2021-22 academic year has been an ongoing testimony to our faculty’s strength and resilience as we work together to ensure the continuity of academic excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. We all benefit from your creativity in meeting the needs of our students and transforming the communities we serve.

At this point in the academic year, it is essential to pause and acknowledge the tremendous contributions of our faculty. I am pleased to announce that the New Brunswick Office of the Chancellor-Provost will accept nominations for a series of awards designed to recognize and highlight our faculty’s excellence through innovative teaching, cross-disciplinary research, public engagement, and service. And this year, to recognize the important contributions of our part-time lecturers, we have added a new award—the Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Part-Time Lecturer. In May, we will come together to celebrate these awards and pay tribute to exceptional faculty who have distinguished themselves in each of these areas.

We invite nominations for the following Chancellor-Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence:

Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching: The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching contributions resulted in an extraordinary impact on the institution, students’ experiences, and public engagement.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Pioneering Research: The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track) whose research contributions have transformed the field, including highly cited scholarship or practiced patents.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Global Impact: The award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose research, teaching, or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated global impacts and exceptional public engagement.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research: The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose research area disrupts or transforms the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations: The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity: The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices, research, and community engagement.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Service: The award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose outstanding service to their school or the campus advances the university’s mission to perform public service to support the needs of the greater Rutgers–New Brunswick community or residents of the state.

Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Part-Time Lecturer: The award honors a part-time lecturer whose work has made valuable contributions to the teaching mission of Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Award recipients will be honored at a Celebration of Faculty Excellence in May, and will each receive an institutional award of $5,000.

  • The deadline for nominations is Thursday, March 31, 2022.
  • Deans, department chairs, and colleagues are invited to submit nominations.
  • Each nomination must include a 300-word summary of the individual’s qualifications and up to three letters of support.
  • A committee of senior faculty members will review nominations and make recommendations to the Chancellor-Provost.

Visit our website to submit a nomination.

It is a privilege to honor and celebrate outstanding faculty members who engage in pioneering research, innovative teaching, and impactful service—inspiring the next generation of citizens and extending the institution’s mission to serve the public good. Thank you for all you do for Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Sincerely,

Francine Conway, Ph.D.
Chancellor-Provost, Rutgers University­–New Brunswick