A campus committee selects the Faculty Lecture Award nominee and is comprised of no fewer than three, and a maximum of five, past recipients of the Faculty Lecture Award, along with the campus President who serves in an ex officio capacity. This group is not a Standing Committee of the Meramec Senate.
To solicit nominations for this award from the full-time faculty members that are based on the Meramec campus; to assess and evaluate the received nomination letters of support; and to choose an awardee each year. The members of the committee undertake discussions as a unit and the faculty members of the committee vote and select the candidate for the Faculty Lecture Award.
A notice to Meramec faculty soliciting nominees is distributed via broadcast campus-wide e-mail and through the campus newsletter between the start of the Spring semester and the first week of February, with nomination letters of support being due to the committee by the middle of March. The committee’s choice of the candidate for the Faculty Lecture Award is made by the third week of April, with the selected candidate being notified by the campus President. In accepting the Faculty Lecture Award, the candidate agrees to give a public lecture on campus to the college community during Service Week activities the following January.
Nominees who are eligible for this award must be an under-contract faculty member of full-time continuing status on the Meramec campus, and serving in good standing under the approved policies and procedures of the STLCC district.
Nominations made by faculty members to the committee should be in the form of a letter of support that indicates the nominator’s familiarity with the nominee and addresses how the nominee comprehensively fulfills the criteria of the Faculty Lecture Award. The method of proper delivery of these nomination letters of support is indicated in the committee’s initial solicitation message, as well as the date by which these nomination letters of support must be received by the committee.
The committee members review all nomination letters of support and meet to discuss the submissions and the strengths of the nominees. The committee may contact faculty members who make a nomination(s) to provide additional information, if necessary, or to further enlighten the committee on characteristics of an academic unit/discipline or its teaching methods. The selection of a candidate for the Faculty Lecture Award is based on how they align with the criteria of the award, the support and information provided by faculty colleagues, and the deliberations of the committee.
Before the end of the Spring semester (usually in late April or early May) the Meramec campus President will contact the faculty member chosen for the Faculty Lecture Award to inform them of their selection and ask them to prepare a lecture that addresses the role and importance of community colleges. If this candidate declines the award, the committee will meet again to select another candidate from the pool of nominees, and the notification process will be repeated, with the new candidate ideally being selected and notified before the end of the Spring semester.
During Service Week, prior to the start of the Spring academic semester, the Faculty Lecture Awardee presents a lecture to members of the Meramec campus community. This lecture is advertised and open to all in the district and to the local community (if requested by the awardee, the in-person lecture can also be synchronously presented virtually to a larger national/international audience). A suitable forum (location) for this lecture, and the physical award itself, is provided by the Meramec campus.The Faculty Lecture Award has a long, distinguished, and prestigious tradition on the Meramec campus.A gift and a reception for the awardee are recommended to reinforce the award’s significance to the campus communityand to help to foster enhanced campus collegiality and solidarity.
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