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Nominations are open for the Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Faculty Service, Excellence in Librarianship, and Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities for 2025-26. The deadline for nominations is Monday, December 29, 2025.
Detailed criteria for these awards is provided in the SUNY Chancellor’s Awards Policies and Procedures for 2025-26 (PDF). For your convenience, an overview of these criteria is provided below.
For all awards, eligible nominees “must have completed three academic years of full-time appointment (years do not need to be consecutive) at the nominating campus prior to the year of nomination. Individuals serving in part-time or visiting capacities [...] are ineligible for these programs. Full-time Clinical faculty and full-time non-tenure track faculty including the title Lecturer are eligible for nomination (p. 2).” Self-nominations are not allowed for any of these awards.
Excellence in Adjunct Teaching
The Excellence in Adjunct Teaching award recognizes “consistently superior teaching at the graduate, undergraduate, or professional level in keeping with the State University’s commitment to providing its students with instruction of the highest quality (p. 10).”
Excellence in Teaching
The Excellence in Teaching award recognizes "consistently superior teaching at the graduate, undergraduate, or professional level in keeping with the State University’s commitment to providing its students with instruction of the highest quality (p. 8)." Candidates must also be teacher-scholars, demonstrate commitment to student service, and maintain high academic standards.
Excellence in Faculty Service
The Excellence in Faculty Service award: "To be nominated, a faculty member must demonstrate consistently superior service. Eligible service contributions may occur in a variety of areas including service to the campus, the State University, the local community or contributions at the regional, state-wide, national or international levels. Eligible activities may encompass a combination of service contributions to discipline or disciplinary and professional organizations and societies; and to leadership in local or system-wide faculty governance. The nature of the service must exceed the work generally considered to be part of a candidate’s basic professional obligation (professional committees, etc.) and must include service that exceeds that for which faculty are normally compensated. There must be positive evidence of outstanding achievement and skill in providing leadership, outreach, or other University and/or community service or extraordinary service and leadership in the nominee’s professional organization. The scope of the service must extend over multiple years, must be geared toward effecting positive change and must involve the generous giving of personal time in service to areas previously described (p. 3)."
Excellence in Librarianship
The Excellence in Librarianship award recognizes “consistently superior professional achievement in the field of librarianship,” demonstrating “extraordinary performance” in at least one of the following areas: “Skill in Librarianship,” “Service to the University and the Profession,” or “Scholarship and Continuing Professional Growth (p. 4-5).”
Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
The Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities award recognizes “consistently outstanding scholarly and creative productivity, conducted in addition to teaching, by SUNY’s instructional faculty (p. 7).” Nominees should demonstrate the following:
For scholarship: “An excellent, sustained record of research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and/or research monographs, and/or research-oriented texts; or a record of presenting at national and/or international conferences, presentation of papers published in conference proceedings and/or digests, patents awarded, grants secured, and citation of work by individuals or groups other than the nominee’s collaborators (p. 7).”
For creative activity: “A record of excellence in creative activity appropriate for the specific field or discipline, such as exhibitions, shows, performances, productions, and stage work; or a record demonstrating evidence of critical reviews, grants, inclusion of works in permanent collections, retrospectives, and other forms of external recognition and acclaim (p. 7).”
Nominees for this award must “regularly carry a full-time teaching load (p. 7).”
Please email nominations to the following:
Daryl Lee <leed1@sunypoly.edu>
The deadline for all nominations is Monday, December 29, 2025.
Reference: Chancellor's Award for Excellence Policies and Procedures 2025-26 (pdf)
