Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Policy statement. Youngstown state
university (university) recognizes the valuable contributions made by
department chairpersons to advance the research, scholarship, and academic
mission of the university.
(B)
Purpose. To recognize and honor outstanding performance of university
department chairpersons.
(C) Scope.
Any chairperson who has completed at least one year as a department chairperson
is eligible for nomination for the excellence award for department
chairpersons. A chairperson may not receive an excellence award within three
years of receiving this same award or a similar distinguished professor award
in that category.
(D) Parameters.
(1) One award may be granted annually to a
department chairperson whose teaching performance at the university has been
identified as outstanding.
(2) One
award may be granted annually to a department chairperson whose performance in
research/scholarship at the university has been identified as
outstanding.
(3) Department
chairperson excellence award recipients shall receive two thousand dollars, a
stipend of one thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars added to the
individual's base salary in the following contract year.
(E)
Procedures.
(1) To be eligible, an individual
must be nominated during the "Call for Nominations" process.
(2) Staff members, faculty, or alumni may
make nominations.
(3) Each
undergraduate college dean will appoint a representative to serve as a
committee to review nominations and recommend award recipients. No person from
a department in which a nomination has been received shall be eligible to serve
on the review committee.
(4) The
names of the award recipients recommended by the committee will be forwarded to
the office of human resources.
(5)
Announcement and presentation of the awards occurs at the annual faculty awards
dinner.
(6) Annually a list of all
recipients of the department chair excellence awards will be presented to the
academic excellence and student success committee of
the board of trustees.
