Presidential Distinguished Merit Awards
Call for Nominations
(formerly the Presidential Faculty Gala Awards)
Nominations are being accepted for the 2015 Presidential Distinguished Merit Awards. Tenured faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, or service are eligible to receive one of these prestigious awards.
Any member of the Cal U community—students, faculty, staff or alumni—may make a nomination. Self-nominations are permitted.
Nominations close at 4:00pm on December 8, 2014.
Although a faculty member may be nominated in multiple categories, he or she can only compete for one award. The nominee may select the category. For example, if a person is nominated for the teaching and service categories, he or she may submit support materials for one or the other, but not both.
Support materials from nominees are due by 4:00pm on January 23, 2015.
This year Interim President Gerri Jones will announce and present award recipients at the 2015 Honors Convocation events (luncheon and ceremony). Each award recipient will be presented with a medallion, an engraved paperweight, $1,000 check, and a $1,000 scholarship award to a student within the recipient's department.
Nominations will be accepted via e-mail only. Please submit e-mail nominations to the Presidential Distinguished Merit Awards Committee Chair, Dr. Paul F. Crawford at crawford_p@calu.edu. The nominations must include the name of the nominee, category of nomination (teaching, research or service), and name of nominator.
Example:
I hereby nominate: ____________________________________________
(name of nominee)
to be considered for the outstanding achievement in:
(teaching) (research) (service)
_____________________________________________
Nominator: _____________________________ ____________________
(Name of nominator) (Date)