The Exemplary Faculty Mentoring Award recognizes faculty mentors who go above and beyond the normal expectations of mentoring by acknowledging the positive impact faculty mentors make in the lives and careers of other faculty. The goal in creating this annual award is to ensure that the critical work of faculty mentoring is rewarded by the faculty mentoring program and recognized by the university. The award will be a personalized commemorative plaque and a $500 honorarium.
Full-time faculty members at the rank of full or associate are eligible to be nominated. Nominees should have served as a faculty mentor, in a formal or informal capacity, to a junior /or mid-career faculty over a continuous period of at least four semesters and have demonstrated success in the areas they mentor (e.g., research, teaching). Administrators (e.g., department chairs and program directors) are not eligible to be nominated.
The members of the Faculty Mentoring Advisory Committee will review the nomination applications and select the recipient of this award based on the strength of the narrative in describing the mentoring competency and quality of the mentoring relationship and the impact the mentor has/had on the mentor's success as a faculty member.
Information the nominator might consider in the narrative might include:
Date | Activity |
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Friday, October 20, 2023 | Deadline for submission of nominations |
Week of November 13 | Notification to the recipient |
April 2024 | Award will be presented at the annual faculty awards ceremony |
Nominations should be prepared in a Word document and sent to jhamlet@niu.edu as an attachment.
In a narrative (two to three pages maximum, double-spaced), describe the reason why this faculty mentor is most deserving of the faculty mentoring award. Overall, how valuable have you found your relationship with this faculty mentor to be? The nominator must provide evidence of how the nominee contributed to the junior faculty member's acclimation to the department, college, university and their achievements.
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