BW Faculty Awards Nomination Form

All faculty award nominations can be found on this form. Nominations can be completed for one award only, or more if the nominee qualifies.

Nominator's Name *

Nominator's Email *

Relationship to nominee: *

Faculty Colleague

Staff Colleague

Student

Self

Nominee's Name *

Nominee's Department/School *

Nominee's Email

Select all of the awards you would like to nominate this person for (you will then be prompted for each award below). *

Bechberger Award for Human Development

Excellence in Community Engagement Award

Gigax Faculty Scholarship Award

Leadership in Study Abroad Award

Research & Sponsored Program Impact Award

Strosaker Award for Excellence in Teaching

Bechberger

Please tell us how this nominee meets some or all of the criteria below (500 words or less).

Unusual effectiveness in personal counseling with individual students.
Special effectiveness in advising extra-curricular groups.
Availability to discuss the interests and needs of students as they grow personally and socially.
Willingness to give time and effort to relationships with students and the total University community.

Unusual effectiveness in personal counseling with individual students.

Special effectiveness in advising extracurricular groups.

Availability to discuss the interests and needs of students, both personal and social.

Willingness to give time and effort to relationships with students and the total University community.

Please mention any other factors not included above, which you feel should be considered by the committee in evaluating your nominee.

Excellence in Community Engagement

Award Criteria:

Open to full-time Baldwin Wallace faculty who have been at the institution for a minimum of 2 academic years.

Additionally, to be considered for this award, a faculty member must have demonstrated qualities in at least one of the following areas (emphasizing work in the past 2- 4 years):

Evidence of deeply engaged, high-quality academic work integrating community engagement with students: Demonstrated integration of community engagement in one’s teaching, research, and/or service as appropriate to one’s context and roles. This might include, but is not limited to, teaching undergraduate service-learning courses, conducting community-based participatory research with students, or developing departmental or institutional engagement programs and curricula.

Evidence of community collaboration and change: demonstrated commitment and capacity to develop and sustain reciprocal community partnerships and to contribute to positive change on issues of public concern.

Evidence of institutional impact: demonstrated leadership in developing an culture of engagement, including involvement related to promoting community engagement on campus and in curriculum (such as promoting community engagement opportunities to students and colleagues)

Please note: review for this award will be based solely on the information and evidence presented in this application. Outside knowledge of faculty engagement (not highlighted in application) will not be considered in review process. Please be thorough and detailed, and provide supporting documentation if possible.

Has the nominee taught a service-learning course at BW? (Please note this is not required to be considered for this award).

Yes

No

Unsure

If yes, what course(s)?

In 1000 words or less, please discuss the contributions the nominee has made to at least one of the three areas mentioned above (emphasizing efforts from the past 2 - 4 years):
1) Academic work integrating community engagement with students
2) Evidence of community collaboration and change
3) and/or Evidence of institutional impact related to developing a culture of engagement.

Please share relevant specifics including courses taught, community partnerships developed, relevant campus committees or other evidence of community-engaged teaching and learning. An area for uploading relevant supporting documents or letters of support (optional) is below.

Upload supporting documents (optional, but highly encouraged): we encourage you to share documents that may demonstrate the impact of work either from students, colleagues or community partners.

Gigax

Include a summary of the Nominee's Key Achievements in Scholarship/Research/Creative Activities (500 words or less). Note: you may find it helpful to interview your nominee to provide relevant evidence of the following criteria:

Publications/Performance
Encouragement of scholarship among and between faculty and students
Active participation in professional associations
Contributions to effective teaching made through scholarly activities

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Upload supporting documents (optional, but highly encouraged).

Leadership in Study Abroad Award

Nominations should consider the following criteria in 500 words or less:

Development and design of an academically rigorous Study Abroad program.
Facilitating students’ engagement with the culture and people of the host country.
Helping students develop intercultural competencies and connections.
Management of program logistics, organization, planning, and structure.
Impact on:
- Campus study abroad programming (within their school and beyond)
- BW students
- Community (local and/or global)
- Field of education abroad

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Upload supporting documents (optional, but highly encouraged): we encourage you to share documents that may demonstrate the impact of work either from students or colleagues.

Research & Sponsored Program Impact Award

The nomination should contain the following documentation: (Please note the nomination of an eligible faculty or staff member can be a self-nomination or nomination by a colleague.)

In 1,000 words describe the impact of the nominee’s externally funded projects on individuals, the students, the university, the community, and the discipline or field. *

The nominator may include an appendix of up to two pages to share charts, graphs, photos, or other evidence of impact.

Upload vitae or résumé (Limited to 3 pages) that highlight research or creative activities and grant proposal writing effort. *

Upload a list of grants and externally funded activities for the last five years. Please indicate the nominee’s role on the grant (e.g.: Principal Investigator, Co-PI, Senior Investigator, Sub-awardee, etc.) and the amounts awarded for each grant or contract. *

Strosacker Award for Excellence in Teaching

Please respond to the following question in 500 words or less. I believe this person should be the recipient of the Strosacker Award for Excellence in Teaching because... *

Upload supporting documents (optional, but highly encouraged): we encourage you to share documents that may demonstrate the impact of work either from students or colleagues.