Faculty Awards

• Nominations for 2025 faculty awards are open until September 5, 2025. Nominations received after the deadline will be considered for the following year.
• Award committees must submit their recommendations of award winners to the Provost’s office by October 15, 2025.
• The Provost will contact each award winner to notify them of the award, usually by phone, by October 31, 2025.
• Awards will be formally presented at the Faculty Awards Banquet on November 13, 2025.

First review the Faculty Award Descriptions and criteria to determine which award would be suitable for your nominee. Review the eligibility criteria below, as well as any additional eligibility rules for the award, before submitting your nomination.

Submit your nomination using the link for that award provided on the Faculty Award Descriptions page. If you are submitting more than one nomination, complete a separate form for each.  

We discourage a single nominator from nominating the same person for multiple awards, or multiple people for the same award. Instead, we encourage you to tailor your nomination for each award, selecting the person you feel is the right nominee for that award and highlighting the unique contributions that make your nominee a strong candidate for it.

• Only current, full-time faculty are eligible for University Awards. Retired/emeriti faculty are not eligible. Unless noted in the award description, faculty of any rank and type (tenured/tenure-track, teaching faculty, research faculty, and Professors of Practice) are eligible to be nominated for awards.
• No faculty member may win the same University Award in two consecutive years. (Some awards also have restrictions on the number of times a given faculty member may win the award ever.)
• All nominees are screened by the Provost’s office for eligibility before the nominations move to the award committees. If a faculty member is nominated for an award for which they are not eligible, the Provost’s office will inform the nominator of the reason for the ineligibility.
• Some awards have additional eligibility restrictions. See the Faculty Award Descriptions page for further details. 

• Each award description indicates who is eligible to submit a nomination for that award.
• Unless otherwise noted in the award description, self-nominations are not accepted.

The primary committee is the Faculty Awards Committee, which is responsible for recommending winners for several awards. Some awards are instead handled by committees that are specific to those awards.

The chair and members of the Faculty Awards Committee are appointed by the Provost, with recommendations from the Deans, former award winners, current and previous committee members, etc.

Award committees make recommendations as to who should win each award. Decisions are ultimately made by the Provost and the senior officers of the University.

The Provost’s office will notify faculty members by email that they have been nominated for an award, provided that they are eligible for the award. 

Winners of faculty awards are notified by the Provost, typically by phone. Winners are requested to attend the awards banquet, but are not required to do so in order to receive the award. (They may receive the award in absentia.) The Provost’s office also notifies each winner’s Department Chair and Dean. Nominees who do not win an award will not receive feedback about why they did not win.

A faculty member who is nominated for an award but does not win will remain in the nominee pool for the next two years (unless they win in the next year), as long as they remain eligible. Nominators need not submit new nominations for those candidates, but they may, if they wish, update or withdraw their nomination materials by notifying the Provost’s office. (This is new as of 2025. Nominees for 2025 awards will remain in the pool through 2027. However, 2024 or earlier nominees will not automatically be included in the 2025 pool; they must be re-nominated to be considered.) 

Individuals may not nominate faculty members with whom they have a close personal or financial relationship, or other similar conflict of interest. (If a nominator is unsure whether they have a disqualifying conflict of interest with the person whom they wish to nominate, they are encouraged to consult with the Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs.)

Members of an award committee may submit nominations for awards, even for the award(s) handled by the committee they serve on, but must disclose in their nomination that they serve on the committee. If they serve on the committee that handles the award, they should recuse themselves from the discussion of that award.

Similarly, individuals who have collaborated with a potential nominee on a research project, have co-taught a course with the potential nominee, etc., may nominate that person for an award, but must disclose this collaborative relationship in their nomination.