Description
Purpose: To recognize outstanding achievement by professional staff and faculty who have had a sustained impact on undergraduate student success. This positive impact may be with individual students or a group of students inside or outside the classroom.
Eligibility: Professional staff and faculty members are eligible. Recipients must be Iowa State employees at the time of the University Awards Ceremony.
Nature of the awards: $2,500 one (1)-time stipend
Number of awards:
- One individual professional staff award
- One individual faculty award
- One team award (faculty, professional staff, or a combination)
Criteria:
Nominees regularly exhibit at least one of these actions/characteristics:
- Collaborate across campus, colleges, and/or units to generate impactful programs and practices to advance student success
- Improve student success by implementing technologies, techniques, practices, or programs that transform the student experience inside or outside of the classroom
- Support student co-curricular success beyond the classroom experience
- Utilize a variety of high-impact educational practices to enhance student success
Guidelines for submitting nominations for the Impact on Student Success Award:
- Completed nomination cover page either for faculty or staff:
- Faculty university award nomination cover page [PDF | DOC]
- Staff university award nomination cover page [PDF | DOC]
- One (1)-page letter from the nominee’s department chair/school director or unit director making or endorsing the nomination and describing the nominee’s impact on student success
- A minimum of one (1) letter of support [maximum of three (3) letters] from an undergraduate student or student group describing the nominee’s qualities
- Abbreviated vita of no more than four (4) pages
- Submit nomination as follows:
- If an individual or employing unit would like to submit a nomination, please email the complete nomination document in a single PDF to award-ss@iastate.edu. The nominations will be housed in a confidential file and the nominator will receive notification of successful submission within 10-15 minutes.
- If a college would like to submit a nomination through the college award nomination process, nominators must submit their nominations to their college by the college deadline; when the college is ready to submit their nominations, the college awards coordinator must upload the nominations to the appropriate college folder on CyBox; if you do not have access to your college's folder on CyBox, please contact Kirsten Abel, kabel@iastate.edu.
Nominations originate in departments/schools, units, centers, or from individuals and are due in the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost on February 10 (or the next business day). Award recipients and their nominator, department chair/school director, dean, or supervisor are notified by May 1. Colleges receive feedback on unsuccessful nominations by July 1.