FSU Career Plan for Awards
At FSU, the administration views faculty awards as an expected part of career development. There are benefits to both faculty and the institution when faculty work is reviewed for award consideration. Indeed, award application and nomination is another means of publicizing your work and expanding the discussion of your ideas.
The Office of Faculty Recognition is available to both guide your choice of award and to facilitate your application or nomination. As you map your developing career, please use the following as a guide for which kinds of awards are appropriate at each stage of career.
Early Career Awards After you have taught at FSU for two years, faculty of all ranks are eligible for:
FSU University Teaching Award: http://provost.fsu.edu/faculty/awards/information/eligibility.html
Five years after you have won a University Teaching Award, you are eligible for the FSU University Distinguished Teacher Award: http://provost.fsu.edu/faculty/awards/information/eligibility.html
FSU Honors Thesis Mentor Award: Contact Jeannette Adams Dümmer at [email protected].
FSU Graduate Faculty Mentor Award: http://www.gradstudies.fsu.edu/Funding- Awards/Awards-and-Grants/Faculty-Awards
With five years of post-doctorate teaching, faculty of all ranks are eligible for:
Fulbright Scholar Award: http://www.cies.org/cies.htm
Many early career awards are limited to five years or ten years after the completion of the PhD. or to the ages of 35 or 40. Visit the Faculty Awards Catalog from the OFR website (http://ofr.fsu.edu) or from your Blackboard Secure Apps page and review the 104 awards identified as Young Scholar awards.
Mid-Career Awards Associate Professors are eligible for:
FSU Developing Scholar Award: http://www.research.fsu.edu/crc/dsaannc.html
CASE US Professor of the Year Award: http://www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org/default.cfm Robert Foster Cherry Teaching Award: http://www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/ Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship: http://www.acls.org/programs/ryskamp/ Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars: http://www.acls.org/programs/burkhardt/ ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx? id=3154 National Academies Research Associates Program: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap/
Consider using the “Containing text” search in the Faculty Awards Catalog to find discipline or research specific awards.
Established Career Awards Full Professors are eligible for:
FSU Distinguished Research Professor: http://www.research.fsu.edu/crc/drpannc.html
FSU Distinguished Teaching Professor: http://provost.fsu.edu/faculty/awards/information/tchg_criteria.html; http://provost.fsu.edu/faculty/awards/information/dta_binder.html
FSU Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor: http://provost.fsu.edu/faculty/awards/
FSU Named Professorships (requires five years of tenure): www.fsu.edu/~dof/forms/ Named ProfProcedures.pdf
Consider searching the Faculty Awards Catalog for “Established Scholar” and “Career Achievement” awards.
Throughout your career you should:
Notify the Office of Faculty Recognition about any book publication. The OFR will research appropriate awards and discuss the options with you.
Maintain the appropriate professional memberships. Scientists should be careful to apply for Senior Status as soon as eligible – usually after five years of professional membership – and Fellow Status. These membership statuses make you eligible for other awards.
Notify the Office of Faculty Recognition each time you receive an award, regardless of whether it is a regional, state, national, or international recognition.
For more information on faculty awards, contact Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland at [email protected] or 850-645-8202 or visit the OFR website at http://ofr.fsu.edu. You may also follow Dr. Wright-Cleveland’s blog about faculty awards on Wordpress.com at http://awardingideas.wordpress.com/, connect with her on LinkedIn, or get updates regarding awards on Twitter (look for M. Wright-Cleveland or mwrightc).