Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities

OFFICE MANAGING THE AWARD PROCESS: Office of Academic Programs with Deans and Directors. Information received from Provost's Office, SUNY Albany.

DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT: Late November

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Nomination Memo - Late December. Final Dossier - Early February

ELIGIBILITY: Nominees for the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities must be full-time, teaching, tenured, or tenure-track faculty. Nominees may hold any academic rank; however, they must have completed at least three years of full-time service on the home campus prior to the year of nomination.

Recipients of an Excellence Award may not, at any time, be re-nominated for an award in the same category; and they may not be nominated for another Excellence Award in any other category within a 10-year period. Posthumous nominations are ineligible.  Other exclusions can be found in the Call for Nominations.

SPECIFICS:

Nominees in the Scholarship (research) category must demonstrate:

• An excellent, sustained record of research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and/or research monographs, and/or research-oriented texts
• Evidence of participation in national and/or international conferences through presentation of papers published in conference proceedings and/or digests
• History of patents awarded
• History of Grants secured
• Citation of work by individuals or groups other than the nominee’s collaborators

Nominees in the Creative Activities category (generally in the fine or performing arts) must demonstrate:

• Evidence of excellence in creative or scholarly activity appropriate for the specific unit or discipline, such as exhibitions, shows, performances, productions, and stage work
• Participation in critical reviews
• Procurement of grants
• Inclusion of works in permanent collections, retrospectives, and other forms of external recognition and acclaim

A summary of accomplishments (limited to a maximum of 5 pages) and a curriculum vitae (CV) are required for nominations.

PRESENTED AT: Dean's Awards Ceremony, Summer

Previous Awardees of The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities Since 2004