Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost

Purpose: The University Professorship recognizes faculty members whose professional work has focused upon effecting positive, significant institutional change at Iowa State University.

Eligibility: Nominees should hold the rank of professor and should have served for at least ten years on the Iowa State University faculty prior to the beginning of the academic year in which they are nominated. The nominees must be individuals whose contributions extend well beyond a one-time impact. Having held an administrative position in and of itself is insufficient for consideration for this recognition. Faculty who have served as administrators (e.g., department chairs, deans, vice president, provost, or staff members in those offices) may be nominated only after they have been out of their administrative roles and functioning as faculty members for at least three years. Recipients must be ISU employees at the time of Fall Convocation.

Nature of the award: A permanent increase of $2,800 in base salary and the title of University Professor.

Number of awards: Varies.

Criteria: A University Professor must above all else have acted as a change agent by having made significant contributions that have improved the university. This professional work must go beyond excellence in teaching or research. In addition to the area of these contributions, a University Professor must have demonstrated outstanding performance in at least one other area of faculty responsibility: (1) research and/or creative activities, (2) teaching and advising, or (3) extension/professional practice.

Selection Process: Nominations should be made to the appropriate college awards committee. Each college awards committee will forward, in rank order, fourteen copies of each nomination, in proportion to the size of its faculty. Each college may make one nomination, plus one additional nomination for each 100 faculty members. No nominations will be allowed for fractions of 100 faculty. Based on figures for tenured and tenure-track faculty members from Fall 2006, the following numbers of nominations are allowed:

College

• Agriculture and Life Sciences (3 nominations)

• Business (1 nomination )

• Design (1 nomination )

• Engineering (2 nominations)

• Human Sciences (2 nominations)

• Liberal Arts and Sciences (5 nominations)

• Library (1 nomination)

• Veterinary Medicine (1 nomination)

• Total Nominations = 16

The University Professor Nomination and Review Committee is appointed by the Executive Vice President and Provost following procedures established by the Faculty Senate. The Faculty Senate Committee on Committees nominates faculty to the Executive Vice President and Provost for membership on the University Professor Nomination Review Committee. Faculty at the rank of Professor and/or University Professor will be nominated for seven positions, one representing each college. The Executive Vice President and Provost will appoint three additional members. All members will serve three year, staggered terms. The University Professor Nomination and Review Committee receives nominations from the colleges, meets at least once, and makes recommendations to the Faculty Senate Executive Board, which will meet in executive session to consider these recommendations. The Executive Board forwards recommendations to the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Selection committees may recommend that outstanding but unsuccessful award nominations be carried forward for one or, in exceptional cases, two years. Such nominations could be updated if the nominator so chooses, but this is not required. In such cases, the nominators should be notified. Not more than 25% of the unsuccessful nominations may be carried forward.

Guidelines for Submitting Nominations for University Professor

Complete the Faculty University Award Nomination Cover Page (DOC) (PDF). The dossier of each nominee should include the nominator's recommendation after securing advisory judgment from the departmental faculty. (The chair may serve as nominator on behalf of the department.) The written statement from the nominator should be no more than four pages in length and should highlight the nominee's accomplishments. Comments should also be included from faculty (no more than six) outside the nominee's department who can provide a critical evaluation of her/his contributions to the university. Both a complete curriculum vita and information on the budgeted time of the nominee during the most recent five years must be included.

Nominations are reviewed by the college before submission to the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Submit fourteen (14) copies to:

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
1550 Beardshear Hall
Attn: Ruth Birch

no later than 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 25, 2008.

Recipients and their department chair and dean are notified in mid-April. Only nominators receive notice of unsuccessful nominations.

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, 1550 Beardshear Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-2021
Phone 515-294-9591, Fax: 515-294-8844