Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities

Three academic years of full-time service during the last five years
Recipients of an excellence award may not be nominated for another excellence award within a five-year interval.
Recipients may not be re-nominated for an award in the same category.
Full-time teaching tenured or tenure track faculty
Full-time non-tenure track faculty
Any full-time academic rank is eligible.

Outstanding scholarly and creative productivity, conducted in addition to teaching.
Scholarship (research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities):
- An excellent sustained record of research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and/or research monographs, and/or research-oriented texts; OR
- A record of presenting at national and/or international conferences, presentation of papers published in conference proceedings and/or digests, patents awarded, grants secured, and citation of work by individuals or groups other than the nominee’s collaborators.
Creative productivity (generally the fine or performing arts of those fields where creative productivity constitutes scholarship (e.g., culinary arts):
- A record of excellence in creative activity appropriate for the specific field or discipline, such as exhibitions, shows, performances, productions, and stage work, OR
- A record demonstrating evidence of critical reviews, grants, inclusion of works in permanent collections, retrospectives, and other forms of external recognition and acclaim.