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Operating Policy and Procedure

OP 32.24: Faculty Awards and Honors

DATE: January 2, 2024

PURPOSE: The purpose of this Operating Policy/Procedure (OP) is to establish consistent guidelines for faculty awards, which recognize outstanding faculty achievement.

REVIEW: This OP will be reviewed in June of each year by the Vice Provost for Faculty Success or designee with substantive revisions presented to the Provost and Senior Vice President (PSVP).

POLICY/PROCEDURE

1.  Policy

University-sponsored awards and honors include:

• Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professorships (See OP 32.09, Selection of Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professorships.)
• President's Faculty Book Awards
• Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award*
• Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award†
• Piper Professor Award‡
• Spencer A. Wells Award for Creativity in Teaching
• Barnie E. Rushing, Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research Awards
• Faculty Distinguished Leadership Award
• Hemphill-Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award
• President's Academic Achievement Awards
• President's Excellence in Teaching Awards
• Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Awards
• Teaching Academy Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award
• President's Excellence in Commercialization Award
• President’s Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Award
• President’s Excellence in Faculty Peer Mentorship Award
• President’s Emerging Engaged Scholarship Award
• Provost’s Institutional Effectiveness in Excellence Award

* The Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award is coordinated by the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President. Nominations must adhere to procedures and criteria outlined in OP 32.13, The Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award.

† The Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award is coordinated by the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation. Nominations must adhere to procedures and criteria outlined in OP 32.21, The Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award.

‡ The Minnie Stevens Piper Compendium is the sponsor of the Piper Professor Awards, and the program is managed through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Participation is by invitation only. To be eligible, candidates must be nominated through the Office of the Provost and Texas Tech University. 

2.  Timing, criteria, nomination, and selection procedures are shown in the attachments to this OP. Submissions received after the established deadlines will not be considered.

3.  Awards made independently by colleges, schools and departments, and by student organizations such as the Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa, are not addressed in this OP.

4.  The Faculty Awards Nomination form (Attachment A) should be followed for each nomination except for the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award (addressed in OP 32.13, The Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award), the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award (addressed in OP 32.21, The Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award), the President's Faculty Book Awards (addressed in Attachment B), and the Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Award (addressed in Attachment C). Contact the Teaching Academy for information regarding the application process for the Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award.

 

Attachment A: Faculty Awards Nomination

Attachment B: President's Faculty Book Awards

Attachment C: Faculty Awards and Procedures

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01 Chancellor
02 Development
04 Audit Services
10 President
30 Academic and Student Affairs – General
32 Academic Policies – Faculty
34 Academic Policies – Students
36 Academic Programs
40 Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
48 Communication Services
52 Information Technology
60 Environmental Health and Safety
61 Facilities Management
62 Financial and Accounting
63 General Services
64 Graduate Programs (Faculty and Students)
65 Research Accounting
66 Libraries
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70 Human Resources
72 Purchasing, Contracting, and Payables
74 Research
76 Security
77 Student Services and Registrar
78 Traffic and Parking
79 Travel
80 Vehicles