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Excellence Awards Nominations Sought


Sam Houston State University faculty will have the opportunity to receive a $5,000 stipend through this year’s Excellence in teaching, research and service awards.

The one-time awards were raised this year from $1,400 for Excellence in Teaching, $1,200 for Excellence in Research and $1,000 for Excellence in Service. The Dean’s Council made the decision to raise the stipend to show their significance in a time when everyday costs have risen but the stipends had not changed, according to Richard Eglsaer, associate vice president for Academic Affairs.

“The deans consider these to be three of the most prestigious awards we give to our faculty, and they felt that the stipend had long outgrown its relative value, so we needed to make the monetary awards measurable to the honor we were bestowing on it,” Eglsaer said. “We raised it to the $5,000 for each of those as a way of letting the faculty know that we consider this significant.”

Nominations for all three awards will be accepted through Feb. 20 at 4 p.m.

Voting for the Excellence in Teaching Award, which can be done online, is open to all students, alumni, faculty, and staff via the SHSU web page or by a personal nomination letter that may be submitted to the committee. Previous award winners are not eligible for nomination.

“This is a very prestigious award, recognizing outstanding teaching service and will be awarded at May’s commencement ceremonies,” said Stanley F. Kelley, excellence in teaching committee chair.

Those who wish to submit letters may send them to Kelley’s office in the agricultural sciences department, at campus mail Box 2088.

The recipients of the research and service awards must be full-time faculty members, who have been employed by SHSU for at least 5 years, to be eligible, and previous recipients are not eligible for the same award.

Faculty and staff may nominate one faculty member for the research award and one for the service award can do so by sending a brief letter of the nominee’s contributions to David Burris, chair of the Faculty Achievement Awards Committee, at campus mail Box 2090.

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SHSU Media Contact: Jennifer Gauntt
Feb. 6, 2004
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