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To the Members of the Campus Community:

The process by which SUNY Oswego recommends nominees for SUNY awards and the promotion to Distinguished Professorships involves the actions of a selection committee.  

The selection committee is responsible for soliciting campus nominations, reviewing nomination files, evaluating all nominees, and ranking nominations as a recommendation for action by the President.

If elected, Faculty Assembly policy calls for the members of the committee to consider nominations for the following categories:

  • Distinguished Professorship
  • Distinguished Teaching Professorship
  • Distinguished Service Professorship
  • Distinguished Librarian
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching
  • Chancellor's Award for Shared Governance (campus may self-nominate)

To download guidelines for these faculty recognition opportunities, please visit this SUNY website.

The composition of the selection committee is as follows:

Serving three-year terms:

  • One voting faculty member each with a minimum of ten years of service at SUNY Oswego from:
    • School of Business
    • School of Education 
    • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 
    • School of Communication, Media and the Arts
  • One at-large voting faculty member
  • One professional staff member
  • Librarians

Serving two-year terms:

  • One voting faculty member with distinguished rank

Serving a one-year term: 

  • Two undergraduate students
  • One graduate student 

Ongoing members:

  • Chair of Faculty Assembly (or designee) 
  • One administrative liaison designated by the President (ex-officio committee member)    

This year, nominations are requested for the following committee members (numbers of vacancies within each category are bolded):

  • Undergraduate students (2)
  • Graduate student (1)
  • Faculty, School of Education (1)
  • Faculty, Distinguished Rank (1)
  • Professional staff (1)

To nominate individuals to serve on the review committee, please download the nomination form.

Any student, administrator, voting faculty, or professional staff member may make any number of nominations for selection committee membership. Nominations for the selection committee are due in writing to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, 223 Hewitt Union, by Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Signed forms can also be emailed to marcus.durso@oswego.edu. Voting faculty and students will be asked to vote for nominees via Google Forms, shortly after this date.  

IMPORTANT: If nominations and subsequent election of review committee members are insufficient to constitute a quorum it may become necessary to forego review of any nominations that may come forward until a review committee is constituted at some point in the future.