Selection Process and Timeline for 2007 KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor

Award Overview

The title of KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor is conferred annually on a single faculty member who exhibits excellence in all three areas of teaching, scholarship, and professional service and has received national or international recognition for his or her contributions. This award is distinguished from those that recognize excellence in a single area (i.e., teaching, scholarship, or professional service). The KSU Foundation will give the KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor recipient a cash award and an additional stipend to use for professional travel, supplies, research, etc. The recipient holds the title for the academic year following his or her selection.

Award Eligibility

1. Nominees must be a full-time KSU faculty member, hold the rank of associate or full professor, be tenured, and have been a member of the KSU faculty for at least seven years.

2. If a college nominee is not selected in a particular year, the college may elect to resubmit the same nominee in subsequent years.

3. Past recipients of the KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor award are not eligible.

4. The award will be presented during the 2007 opening of university faculty meeting. The recipient must be under contract at KSU at the time the award is presented in order to receive any part of the award.

Criteria for Award Selection at College and University Levels

To be given serious consideration for the KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor Award, a nominee must have demonstrated distinguished achievement in teaching, scholarship, and professional service, both separately and in an integrative manner, and must have been awarded formal and documented recognition in his or her area of academic specialization on a national or international level. Although extraordinary performance in only one of these three areas may be present, no nominee will be selected who has not also demonstrated distinguished performance in the other two areas.

Nomination and Selection Process

1. Each college will design its own process for identifying and selecting potential nominees for the KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor Award. Each college can submit only one nominee to be considered for the award.

2. Ten copies of the nominee's portfolio are to be submitted to the Provost, or his designee, by mid-April of each year. The portfolio must include: (a) a written statement, of no more than seven single-spaced pages, summarizing evidence that supports and documents the nominee's recognized excellence and impact in teaching, scholarship, and professional service and also addresses how the nominee integrates his or her accomplishments in teaching, scholarship, and professional service; (b) the nominee's vita; and (c) an appendix of no more than 30 single-sided or 15 double-sided pages supporting documentation referenced in the written statement or vita. The appendix should be judiciously assembled to include only essential documentation. Examples of documentation are listed below and are intended as suggestions, and are not prescriptive or exhaustive.

Teaching:
Documentation might include student and peer evaluations of classroom teaching, peer evaluation of instructional materials, documented evidence of innovative curriculum, methods, and technologies, and both KSU and external recognitions for outstanding teaching (e.g., awards, invitations to conduct workshops or make presentations). Documentation should preferably include internal and external peer reviewed presentations or publications on innovative teaching.

Scholarship:
Nominees should have developed a substantial body of scholarship in their area of academic specialization. A nominee's scholarship may be collaborative, but his or her contribution must be clear and substantial. The scholarship may include refereed and invited publications, grants for the support of scholarship, invited and contributed presentations, exhibitions of creative work, inventions and patents, published software, etc. Further, the impact of the scholarship at a national or international level must be documented (e.g., awards, invited conference presentations or exhibitions, evidence of citations of and references to the nominee's work by others).

Professional Service:
Professional service must evidence breadth beyond simply campus-based service. Professional service might include some combination of long-term institutional contributions and leadership at the departmental, college, and university-wide levels as well as professional service at the national or international level (e.g., holding offices in professional organizations, editing national and/or international journals, reviewing for professional journals, participation on committees in professional organizations, or volunteer work directly related to one's professional expertise). Nominees should document the impact and innovations of professional service at the institutional and national or international level (e.g., new policies or procedures adopted by a professional organization; new programs such as conferences or workshops, including evidence of their success).

Integration of Teaching, Research, and Professional Service:
The nominee must address the innovative ways that he or she integrates teaching, scholarship, and professional service into his or her overall performance as a distinguished professor at the senior rank. Specific examples that illustrate such integration should be included (e.g., publications, materials that are developed and used for scholarship, teaching, and service). For example, a nominee may have adapted and incorporated information originally developed through his or her scholarship into both classroom teaching (e.g., an instructional module) and professional service (e.g., presentations to community or professional groups, consultation).

3. A specially appointed committee will complete the portfolio review and selection of the KSU Foundation Distinguished Professor using the criteria outlined above. The KSU President, Provost, and the KSU Foundation President will appoint the committee jointly. The committee should include a senior, tenured faculty member from each college, a representative from the KSU Foundation, and one external reviewer who is a tenured senior faculty member at a 4-year institution similar to KSU.

2007 Time Frame for Nomination and Selection

March 1, 2007: College nominee selected

April 20, 2007: College forwards 10 copies of the nominee's application materials to the CETL Director.

July 3, 2007: Selection committee forwards recommendations for winners to the KSU President and Propost

The 2007 recipient will be announced during the Fall Opening of University faculty meeting.