Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
All of the nominations for faculty awards administered by Rackham are submitted directly through our website. This may require some changes in the way nominators put together the dossiers. Please read through this site before you begin the nomination process.
To honor and encourage the considerable efforts and accomplishments of faculty who consistently serve as effective mentors of doctoral students, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies has established the Graduate Mentoring Awards for tenured faculty from any discipline. Graduate students and their department leadership are encouraged to identify faculty who guide students throughout their professional training in a continuing, multifaceted partnership sustained by mutual respect and concern. The successful mentor serves as advisor, teacher, advocate, sponsor, and role model, ensuring that the experience of dedicated scholars and artists remains accessible to the full spectrum of graduate students. This award is part of the Graduate School's continuing efforts to foster a culture of mentoring and increase awareness that such mentors serve as models for the entire faculty.
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General Information
Eligibility
Nominees must be tenured faculty members who have advised a substantial number of doctoral students over a number of years. More than one nomination may be submitted per department or program. Schools, departments and programs are encouraged to recognize the many forms that mentorship can take, and nominate women, faculty of color, and members of other groups historically underrepresented in their disciplines. Note: Because the D'Arms Award specifically recognizes distinguished mentoring in the humanities, this award will typically go to faculty members in fields other than the humanities.
Selection Criteria
Nominees should be scholars and/or artists with a demonstrated commitment to fostering the intellectual, creative, scholarly and professional growth of their graduate students. For more detail see the Guidelines section below.
Number of Awards
The recipient will receive an award of $1,000. We expect to make 3-5 awards in 2010.
Source of Nominations
Nominations may be submitted by the nominee's dean, associate dean, department/program chair, or graduate chair. Graduate students and alumni are encouraged to contact department leadership with appropriate suggestions and to participate in the nomination process.
Selection Process
Nominations will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary selection committee composed of senior faculty. Awardees will be selected by the Dean of the Graduate School, based upon recommendations of this committee. The names of the recipients will be announced shortly thereafter and the awards will be formally presented at a ceremony on April 2010.
Deadline and submission
The nomination deadline for 2010 Graduate Mentoring Award is January 25, 2010, 12PM\noon EST.
For more information contact:
Homer C. Rose, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Programs
915 East Washington Street
1130 Rackham
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1070
Telephone: 764-4400
E-mail: faculty-awards@umich.edu
Guidelines for the Preparation of Nominations
The complete instructions for submitting a nomination for this award, and the FAQ for the general process of submitting nominations online, are available here as well as on the separate nomination website.
Listed below are the seven items that must be included in the dossier before the nomination can be submitted. You will be asked to either enter text into text boxes or online forms, or upload documents in Adobe PDF format.
Before you begin, please read the section about requesting and submitting letters of support below. These letters should not be sent to you but rather submitted directly by the letter writer electronically through a separate website.
A nomination dossier can be set up by a U-M faculty or staff member. Up to six others may be given access to the site by the person who opens the dossier on the website. After a nomination dossier is started the nominator(s) and assistant(s) may login to the faculty awards nomination system as many times as needed in order to complete the nomination.
Contact Information Form
Provide in the online form all the contact information requested for both the nominee and the nominator--not the administrative contact.
Letter of Nomination
You may submit your nomination letter by uploading the document in Adobe PDF format. Or, if you would prefer to use the text box, we recommend that you write your statement in a non-web format (such as a word processing or text editor program), save a copy for your personal records, and then copy and paste the final document into the space provided.
The nomination letter may be no longer than five pages (3,400 words) in length.
The letter of nomination should be submitted by the nominee's dean, associate dean, department/program chair, or graduate chair, or by graduate students or alumni with the endorsement of the nominee's school or college and department administration. If the nomination is being submitted by a department or program other than the one in which the nominee has his/her major appointment, the head of that department should also sign the letter.
Committee members often find specific reference to the selection criteria helpful as they try to evaluate the mentoring skills of nominees. The nomination should discuss the nominee's special contributions to graduate education in general and to the mentoring of graduate students in particular. This includes reference to how the nominee:
- Models an impressive record of excellence in research and/or creative work, teaching skills, research and artistic presentation and publication, the ability to obtain funding, and the nurturing of good mentoring practices;
- Promotes successful completion of students' graduate work and degree programs;
- Advances students' long-term professional development;
- Integrates students into the broader culture of the discipline;
- Ensures that students master the content and skills of their discipline;
- Creates a supportive environment for research, scholarship and/or artistic production;
- Maintains accessibility by providing consistently open lines of communication;
- Provides students with the resources necessary to take full advantage of academic and professional opportunities;
- Collaborates with other faculty in multiple-mentoring relationships.
Letters of Support
Note: Do not have the letters of support sent to you. These letters must be submitted by the writers directly to the nomination dossier through a separate website. Writers will be asked to either enter text into an online form, or upload documents in Adobe PDF format.
When you contact the letter writer with your request, direct him/her to https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/support/ and provide the writer with the U-M ID of the nominee and name of the award. On this website the writers will find straightforward directions for submitting the letter of support for your nominee.
Once the letters have been sent into the website you will be able to read them in the nomination dossier and then select which letters you actually want to include when you submit the nomination. Only the letters you have selected will be seen by the review committee.
Nominations should include not more than six letters in support of the nominee from current and/or former graduate students who have studied with the nominee at the dissertation stage. These letters should detail the nature and extent of the nominee's mentorship. The writers should reflect the full diversity of students mentored by the nominee.
Each letter of support may be no longer than five pages (3,400 words) in length.
Complete and current curriculum vitae
Include the nominee's c.v. by uploading the most recent version in Adobe PDF format. Note: while information about courses taught and dissertation service may be in the c.v., providing that same information by completing the forms below is necessary because it facilitates the review process.
Courses Form
Complete the online form by providing in the text boxes the following information for all graduate courses taught during the past eight terms: course number, course name, approximate number of students enrolled, term and year taught.
If your school/college represents course information in another format you will be able to describe this in a separate text box.
Doctoral committee service form
Complete the online form by providing in the text box the following information for all doctoral committee service in the past ten years: name of student, student's department/program, year the degree was conferred or is expected, role served by the nominee, and placement information for the student, if available.
Teaching evaluations
Please indicate the courses for which you would like us to request your nominee's evaluation reports from The Office of Evaluations and Examinations. That office will send the summary reports on student evaluations directly to us in a digital file. This file will then be uploaded to the dossier.
If your school/college uses another mode of evaluation please contact us to determine how your nominee's evaluations can be submitted.
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Past Recipients of the Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
2009
- Margaret Gnegy, Pharmacology
- Theresa Lee, Psychology
- Karin Martin, Sociology and Women’s Studies
- Bradford Orr, Physics
- James Wight, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2008
- Robert Franzese, Political Science
- Carol Loveland-Cherry, Nursing
- Mark Mizruchi, Sociology
- Michael Morris, Chemistry
- Beverly Rathcke, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Jessica Schwartz, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Cell and Molecular Biology
2007
- David Engelke, Biological Chemistry
- Mike Woodroofe, Leonard J Savage Professor of Statistics
- Demosthenis Teneketzis, EECS
- Rosemary Sarri, School of Social Work, Center for Political Studies, ISR
- Bobbi Low, SNRE
2006
- Kate Barald, Cell and Developmental Biology
- Mark Meyerhoff, Chemistry
- Philip Savage, Chemical Engineering
- Norbert Schwarz, Psychology
- Lynn Walter, Geological Sciences
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Created On: 31 Mar 2009 11:07 AM
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