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Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching - Submit nominations to HR before 4:45 p.m. on 10/27

Dr. Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik, Provost-in-Charge, invites nominations for the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching:

"Our diverse adjunct faculty are an important component of the educational experience of our students at the graduate, undergraduate or professional levels, and vital members of the SUNY community. This Chancellor’s Award for Excellence is a recognition of, and a tribute to, the expertise, commitment, and dedication of SUNY’s adjunct faculty who rise to serve as exemplars for their peers. . . . We encourage campuses to have a diverse and inclusive pool of candidates for consideration."

Monroe Community College may submit five (5) nominations for consideration.

Read the SELECTION CRITERIA below and nominate an excellent adjunct colleague.

Submit your nomination to Human Resources at HR@monroecc.edu before 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, 2021.

SELECTION CRITERIA

The primary criterion is skill in teaching.

Teaching Techniques and Representative Materials–There must be positive evidence that the candidate performs superbly in educational environments. The nominee must maintain instructional policies that adapt readily to student needs, interests and problems. Mastery of teaching techniques must be demonstrated and substantiated.

Candidate’s evaluations of students’ work must be strongly supported by evidence. When available, student evaluations (in the form of student questionnaires administered and compiled by persons other than the nominee) may provide a clear idea of the nominee’s effectiveness in teaching. Additional consideration, as appropriate, may be given to:

Outstanding support for the intellectual growth of individual students;
Demonstrated use of relevant contemporary data from their discipline(s) in their teaching. Evidence may be scholarly and/or widely recognized experience in the field;
Number of students per course; and
Different teaching techniques employed.

Eligibility Criteria Specific to the Excellence In Adjunct Teaching Award:

Nominees must be Adjunct faculty as generally defined by the specific SUNY institution.
Individuals serving in full-time professional or academic position at a SUNY institution are not eligible for this award;
Nominees must have taught, over the proceeding five years, a total of courses equivalent to one-half of a three-year full-time teaching load in the appropriate department;
Nominees may also serve in adjunct roles at other educational institutions; and
Nominees must be employed by the nominating campus at the time of the nomination.

SELECTION PROCESSES

Campuses are required to empanel a specifically constituted committee to elicit nominations, evaluate candidates, and recommend to the campus President the candidates to go forward to the System Administration level. The following describes the overarching and program-specific requirements.

CAMPUS NOMINATION PROCESS

The programs require that nominations coming forward to the System Administration level be the product of an objective and rigorous campus review. Further, the nomination process should benefit from the involvement of a broad spectrum of the campus community including faculty, students, and administration. Under no circumstance may individuals apply – or self-nominate – for these awards.

Submit your nomination to Human Resources at HR@monroecc.edu before 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, 2021.

Link to Chancellor's Award for Excellence In Adjunct Teaching webpage

10/25/2021