In order to make deliberations and decisions fair and meaningful, the presentation of candidates for the Office for University Outreach and Regional Campuses Outstanding Professor Award should be uniform and consistent across all regional campuses. To that end, these guidelines provide information about required and suggested materials to be compiled for candidates by individual campus nominating committees.

Presentation materials are not intended to reflect the dossiers compiled for Tenure and Promotion decisions; however, supporting materials for verification should be available to the member of the campus nominating committee charged with presenting the campus candidate to the RHE committee making the decision about the award(s).

Materials may not exceed a maximum length of seven pages, excluding appendices. The required materials must be submitted loosely, with no binders or plastic sleeves. All documents should observe standard margins of one inch, with one and a half line spacing, and twelve-point font.

Required Materials:

• Current detailed Curriculum Vitae of Candidate (Appendix A)
• Letter of Recommendation from the Campus Nominating Committee
• Letter of Recommendation from Faculty or Division Coordinator
• Bulleted list explaining outstanding achievements in the three major areas of Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, demonstrating cause for the nomination of the campus candidate

Care should be taken in these documents to make the nominee's excellences apparent, especially in the areas where achievement is exceptional, innovative, and clearly beyond expectations for an actively engaged faculty member.

Suggested Materials

• These materials may vary from candidate to candidate. What is important to include here is documentation of the nominee's outstanding contributions to Teaching, Scholarship, and Service. Where applicable, a detailed description of activities should cover the following categories, as they may apply:

Teaching - a record of excellence and continuing development beyond subject

• Knowledge
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy (Appendix B)
• On-going professional development
• Implementation of new materials, recent theories, and/or methodologies
• Course/curriculum development
• Synthesis of academic interests to enhance the classroom
• Evidence of effectiveness (course evaluations should be available to the campus nominating committee and to the RHE committee constituted for the award deliberations; however, this does not call for a numerical chart, but a description and accurate, verifiable overview)
• Design and implementation of instructional approaches
• Assessment techniques
• Sample syllabi of innovative courses, no more than three (Appendix C)
• Mentoring faculty
• Mentoring and advising students

Scholarship - an active, on-going record of activity seen in stellar achievement or as

• continuing contributions
• Research Statement (Appendix D)
• Publications
• Conferences
• Grants
• Editorships
• Professional Organizations
• Research interests and their impact on teaching

Service - a record of willing, responsible, collegial, and effective leadership

• Statement of Service Philosophy (Appendix E)
• Campus-service on committees, positions of responsibility, wide-interest contributions to campus life not confined to discipline
• University-connections with other regional campuses and the Athens campus through committees or special projects
• Community-discipline-related activities that enhance the life of the community and are relevant to the campus mission

Proof and verification of these activities are the responsibility of the individual regional campus committees constituted to make the nomination for the Outstanding Professor Award, Regional Campuses.