LAND GRANT SCHOLAR’S AWARD
This award was made possible by the Niles family, alumni, faculty, and friends through the Dean Jerry A. and Ruth Anne Niles Fund for Faculty Excellence. Its purpose is to honor the vision and tireless work of Dean Niles to the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the field of education, and to particularly recognize his commitment to the university’s land-grant mission. In addition, the award honors Ruth Anne Niles, his wife, for her support of his work and the college.
Purpose: To support excellence in faculty scholarship within the college that reflects the engagement mission of the university.
The recipient must be a CLAHS instructor, lecturer, AP (administrative and professional faculty), tenured, or tenure-track faculty member and have demonstrated exemplary scholarship of engagement. The award may be granted jointly to two or more persons when the research was done jointly and was led by a CLAHS faculty member.
Criteria for the Award:
- The scholarship enhances the lives of individuals, families, communities or society beyond the walls of the university;
- The scholarship is founded on a principle of mutual collaboration between the scholar and the public;
- The scholar recognizes and articulates the reciprocal benefits of the collaborative, participatory nature of this work;
- The scholarship is shared publicly in presentations or publications (ideally in partnership with community collaborators); and
- The scholarship engages students (when appropriate).
Application:
- Nomination letter (self or other) highlighting nominee’s scholarship of engagement and its impact. (1 page maximum).
- Summary of nominee’s scholarship of engagement, with focus on how this scholarship addresses the evaluation criteria listed above. (3 pages maximum)
- One or two letters of support from someone familiar with the significance of this scholarship of engagement (1 page maximum). Letters can be either internal or external letters of support
- In the case of team nominations, the nominator (in collaboration with the team) will submit with the application a plan for the equitable distribution of the award among the team members.
Timeline:
September 25 |
Information about the awards are distributed to faculty/departments |
January 6 |
Deadline for submission of one hard copy and one PDF of the complete application to Monica Rich, 260 Wallace Hall, Mail Code = 0426, mrich14@vt.edu |
January 13 – March 6 |
Applications are reviewed and recipients are selected |
March 12 |
Nominees are notified of award decisions (selection and non-selection) |
April 20 |
Committee presents awards at CLAHS 2009-2010 Awards and Honors Reception in the Owens Banquet Hall from 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
Recognition:
A plaque and $2,500 for professional development will be presented at the April 20th reception. (Jerry and Ruth Anne Niles will be invited to participate in the presentation of this award.)
Note: Winners are not eligible for this award for the three years after receiving it.