Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring
The Provost's Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award honors an RIT faculty member who actively helps in the development of a junior colleague’s career by offering advice, feedback, and guidance that reflects a deep understanding of their department, college, and university. The faculty member receiving this award embodies the spirit of RIT's values, honor code, and commitment to diversity and inclusion in a way that contributes to the future of the university.
Eligibility & Process
Nominations will be accepted for the 2025 Award beginning Tuesday, October 1, 2024, and closing Friday, November 8, 2024, 11:59 pm EST.
THE NOMINEE
- In addition to embodying the spirit of RIT's values, honor code, and commitment to diversity and inclusion in a way that contributes to the future of the university, nominees being considered for this award must be a full-time RIT faculty member within Academic Affairs who has:
- Mentored a junior colleague (RIT faculty) for at least one year either formally or informally.
- Helped the mentee(s) (RIT faculty) develop in specific capacities such as teaching, research and/or scholarship.
- Provided career advancement advice.
- Offered assistance and generously provided support.
- Nominees who have received this award in the previous ten years are not eligible. Self-nominations are not allowed. Nominees may be asked to supply additional evidence to support the criteria for the award.
THE NOMINATOR(S)
- A full-time RIT faculty member who has been in a mentee relationship with an RIT faculty member may nominate their mentor. The nominee must not be in a position of authority over the mentee, e.g. their department head or dean. Groups of mentees may nominate a single mentor.
- To nominate a faculty mentor, complete and submit the nomination form.
A sample of the nomination form is available here. It is strongly recommended that the nomination application be prepared in a Word document, then copy to the Qualtrics form. - Descriptions of mentoring roles and characteristics are available in the Faculty Mentoring Guidebook.
- Please note that this award is for faculty-to-faculty mentoring, not faculty-student mentoring.
Award Recipients
2024-2025
Larry Alfonso Villasmil Urdaneta, College of Engineering Technology
2023-2024
Ashok Robin, Saunders College of Business
Sarah Sarchet, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
2022-2023
Christine Kray, College of Liberal Arts
Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, Kate Gleason College of Engineering
2021-2022
Jerrie Hsieh, Saunders College of Business
2020-2021
Betsy Dell, College of Engineering Technology
2019-2020
Stephen Jacobs, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
2018-2019
Ann Hager, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Peter Hauser, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
2017-2018
Katie Terezakis, College of Liberal Arts
Stan Rickel, College of Art and Design
2016-2017
Shal Khanzanchi, Saunders College of Business
Elizabeth A. Kmiecinski, College of Health Sciences and Technology
2015-2016
Caroline DeLong, College of Liberal Arts
2014-2015
Darren A. Narayan, College of Science
Scott Franklin, College of Science
2013-2014
Chun-Keung (Stan) Hoi, Saunders College of Business
Satish Kandlikar, Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Brian J. Landi, Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Hossein Shahmohamad, College of Science
Harvey Rhody, College of Science
2012-2013
Robert J. Barbato, Saunders College of Business
Christopher J. Collison, College of Science
Robert D. Garrick, College of Engineering Technology
Anne Haake, Golisano College of Computing and Information Science
Todd Pagano, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
2011-2012
Patrick M. Scanlon, College of Liberal Arts
Contact
For more information, contact Faculty Career Development at FCDS@rit.edu.