Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring

Nomination application deadline:  Monday, January 16, 2023, 11:59 pm.
This 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

Nominees should meet or exceed the following:

  1. Be a full-time RIT faculty member.
  2. Shall not have been a recipient of the award in the preceding ten years.
  3. Must have formally or informally mentored a junior colleague for at least 1 year.
  4. Helped mentees develop in specific capacities (e.g. teaching, research, scholarship, service, etc.).
  5. Provided career advancement advice.
  6. Offer support.

Nomination Process

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 have positional authority over the mentee and should have acted as their mentor in a formal or informal capacity for at least one year. Groups of mentees may nominate a single mentor. Self-nominations are not allowed.

To nominate a faculty member, complete and submit a nomination form when the application process opens. The application may be found here. To assist you with the required information for your submission, a blank sample document is available . It is strongly recommended that you complete your application in a Word document, then copy and paste into the Qualtrics form.

Nominees may be asked to supply additional evidence to support the criteria for the award.

Descriptions of mentoring roles and characteristics are available in the Faculty Mentoring Guidebook.

Awards Ceremony

Award recipients will be honored at the Provost’s Celebration of Teaching and Scholarship awards. The celebration will take place in April 2023.

More information about ceremony

Award Recipients

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.