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Faculty Awards

Faculty Award Submission Guidelines

Faculty members of colleges at WesternU are encouraged to participate in selecting a faculty colleague who meets the criteria for each award: Leadership and Service, Distinguished Scholar, and Distinguished Teacher.

Nominations are to be submitted by the Chair of the College Faculty Affairs Committee or the College Awards Committee, or any equivalent committee dealing with faculty awards.
Award Nomination Form

Submission Guidelines

  • Deadline for submission for awards.
  • July 31, of each academic year.
  • Provost’s Shared-Governance Travel Stipend Award submissions: by May 1, of each academic year.

Instructions

  • The responsible nominating committee from each college must submit the candidates for each award to the Academic Senate.
  • Candidates can be nominated for only one award per submission year.
  • Past award recipients are not eligible for nomination for five years following the year of their award.
  • Incomplete nominations will not be reviewed.
  • Self-nominations from faculty members directly to the Academic Senate are not permitted.
  • If there is no qualified nominee in a given year, the University Faculty Affairs Committee (UFAC) may choose to make no award.

Award Announcement

  • The award will be announced by the chair of the University Faculty Affairs Committee at an Academic Assembly meeting. The awardee will be presented with a personalized plaque and medallion that will be delivered at a College Faculty Assembly.

Note: This is a faculty-driven process. Administrators with an Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean, Vice Dean, or any individual with a “Dean” title will be excluded from participation either in the nomination process or as a candidate for the awards.