EHE Distinguished Faculty and Staff Awards

Purpose

Each year, the College of Education and Human Ecology recognizes excellence through various awards at a college-wide event. Faculty and staff are awarded for their outstanding contributions that help the college achieve its vision, mission, and goals.

Nominations

Faculty and staff are invited to nominate their peers for awards. The nomination should describe in detail the outstanding performance of the nominee and should also include how the nominee fulfills the description and criteria for the award.

Please address the following in your nomination submission:

• Nominee’s contact information: name, title, email, and phone number
• Nominator’s contact information: name, title, email, and phone number
• Name of award
• Narrative describing the nominee’s contributions using the following questions as guidelines:
  • In what context and for how long have you known the nominee?
  • Why have you chosen to nominate this person? 
  • How does the nominee demonstrate specific aspects of the award? Provide examples citing specific contributions (e.g., program development, leadership, service) to support your nomination.
  • Can you certify, to the best of your ability, that the information in this submission is accurate?

Nominations should be submitted to Nicole Luthy at luthy.22@osu.edu by Friday, May 7, 2021. Please attach your letter of nomination as a Word document.

Award Criteria and Eligibility

Each category has its own parameters for the nominator to justify and explain how the nominee fulfills the award criteria. All nominees must be part-time (at least 50% FTE) or full time, faculty or staff, and must be in good standing with the college. Temporary staff and graduate associates are not eligible. There are seven awards in seven categories, and the award recipients for each category will be recognized and will receive $1,000 cash award from the Herrick fund.  The Executive Committee will select recipients, whom will be recognized during the Convocation ceremony in August 2021. Note: All cash awards, regardless of amount, represent taxable income to the individual.

Awards

EHE Distinguished Teaching Award

Honors individuals for excellence in teaching that encourages inquiry, reflection, and innovation. Recipients value multiple perspectives and infuse technology while encouraging scholarship and collaboration.  Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the EHE Distinguished Teaching Award:

• Supporting inquiry, reflection, and innovation through excellent teaching allowing multiple perspectives

• Encouraging scholarship and collaboration

EHE Distinguished Faculty Service Award

Honors individuals who make extensive contributions to furthering the mission of EHE. Their contributions allow faculty, staff, and students to focus positively on achieving excellence. Recipients offer a record of participation and contribution in departmental committees, graduate studies committee, program committees, and professional committee memberships. Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the EHE Distinguished Faculty Service Award:

• Furthering the mission of EHE by both taking direct action and inspiring others

• Offering service to EHE by committee membership or other substantive means

EHE Distinguished Research Award

Honors individuals who advance the field through transforming and integrating knowledge, facilitating learning, solving compelling problems, contributing to public policy, evaluating practices and programs, or interpreting knowledge for relevant audiences. Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the EHE Distinguished Research Award:

• Scholarly activity that transforms or integrates knowledge in a given field

• Contributions that advance learning, problem-solving, policy, evaluation, or scholarly understanding

The Rudine S. Bishop Diversity Enhancement Award

The Rudine S. Bishop award, named for the emeritus EHE professor who has done award-winning work on African-American Children’s Literature, honors faculty or staff who have demonstrated commitment to enhancing the diversity of the college.  The individual chosen for this award will have clearly demonstrated their belief in the value of breaking down barriers and diversifying the College.  This commitment to diversity can be reflected in a number of ways: designing and offering courses that consider diverse and/or underrepresented populations, offering activities that engage EHE students and the college in topics related to diversity or diversification, programming activities and events that engage the broader Columbus community, or other activities that enhance the diversity of a unit of the college or the college more broadly.  Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the Rudine S. Bishop Diversity Enhancement Award:

●     Demonstrating commitment to enhancing the diversity of the college through programming or other specific activities

EHE Distinguished Staff Leadership Award

Honors exceptional staff leadership within the college. Recipients motivate others by mentoring or coaching, provide excellent service, and create an environment that reflects EHE’s mission, vision and goals. Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the EHE Distinguished Staff Leadership Award:

• Demonstrating effective leadership

• Motivating others to achieve professional and personal development

• Offering service to others and creating an environment that supports EHE's mission, vision, and/or goals (see EHE's strategic plan for more information)

EHE Distinguished Staff Award

Honors outstanding EHE staff who create an environment that fosters respect, integrity, fairness, and professionalism. Recipients provide exceptional customer service to enhance faculty, staff, and student experiences at The Ohio State University. Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the EHE Outstanding Staff Award:

• Creating an environment that fosters respect, integrity, fairness, and professionalism

• Encouraging teamwork and collaboration

• Demonstrating exceptional customer service toward staff, faculty, and/or students

EHE Faculty Impact Award

Honors outstanding EHE senior faculty who have made significant and sustained contributions to their fields of study and reflected excellence in all aspects of their career, including teaching, research, leadership, and service. Nominations should address how the nominee demonstrates the following aspects of the EHE Faculty Impact Award:

• Exhibiting exemplary scholarship related to critical issues in their fields

• Advocating for access and inclusion, social justice, and issues of equity in their scholarship

• “Paying it forward” through mentorship and leadership

• Engaging in distinguished service at the local, national and/or international level(s) in pursuit of contributing to the greater good