Award Deadlines

Nomination Deadline: October 29, 2007
Application Deadline: November 16, 2007

Award Description

The Distinguished University Professorships serve to recognize full professors who continue to excel in teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and research and service.  The award is held for a three-year period beginning in the spring semester, but recipients hold the title, Distinguished University Professor, through their career at The University of West Florida. The funding source for the awards is the Pace Distinguished University Professorship endowment managed by the UWF Foundation.

Award Eligibility & Criteria

• Tenured Full Professor
• Minimum of five years in rank at UWF
• Distinguished record in teaching, scholarship and service
• A level of highest achivement in one of the areas, teaching, scholarship and creative activity, research or service

Award Amount & Details

Those named Distinguished University Professors will be awarded:

• $7,500 stipend per year for three years
• $10,000 annual budget for each of three years, the use of which is proposed in the application (may include summer salary, travel, materials and equipment, assistantship, or other expenditures designed to enhance the work of the recipient)
• One course reassignment to a project (as proposed in the application) each semester for three years

The departments of those selected to be Distinguished University Professors will be awarded $10,000 per year during the tenure of the award (normally three years) for departmental faculty development (travel, equipment, etc.).

The award will be effective January 1, 2008.

Award Timeline

Nominations must be submitted to the Provost's Office no later than 5:00 p.m., Monday, October 29, 2007, so the nominee can be notified and has adequate time to prepare an application. Please send your nominations to the Office of the Provost, Building 10, Room 210, or by email - academicaffairs@uwf.edu. Self nominations are appropriate.

Applications are to be submitted to the Provost's Office no later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, November 16, 2007. Portfolios will be reviewed by the selection committee and a recommendation forwarded to the Provost.

The Provost will make an award announcement by the end of the Fall 2007 semester.

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