Inclusive Excellence Award

For Faculty

Description

The Inclusive Excellence Award for Faculty will be awarded each year to a Tandon faculty member who demonstrates inclusive leadership and manifests the ideals of diversity, belonging, and equity through research and scholarship, creative work, teaching, mentoring, and/or service. The recipient will receive a $5,000 award.

All full-time Tandon faculty members are eligible for nomination.

Nomination Materials and Process

Nominators are asked to submit the following documents by the announced deadline to the Faculty Development, nyutandonfacultydevelopment@nyu.edu:

A Nomination letter (describing why the individual or team should receive the award) may be submitted by anyone in the Tandon community. Self-nominations are also welcome.
A statement of how the nominee’s work has fostered and enhanced IDBE (up to 2 pages written by the nominee).
Current CV.

Primary Evaluation Criteria

Demonstrated commitment to fostering IDBE across a range of possibilities such as:

Research or Creative Work
- Engagement in research or creative work that enhances our understanding of IDBE.
- Engagement in research or creative work that attracts new scholars to the field and improves access and opportunity.

Teaching/Mentoring
- Development and implementation of effective strategies for teaching that advance the education of students from underrepresented groups; activities can include innovative classroom instruction and advising (undergraduate or graduate students).
- Mentoring undergraduate or graduate students, or faculty who are members of groups that are historically or currently underrepresented in their field and/or whose background and experiences contribute to campus diversity.
- Creating curricula and courses that enable the development of student intercultural competence to navigate global and multicultural realities.
- Implementing effective strategies/policies that address barriers preventing the full participation of students from historically or currently underrepresented groups in higher education and/or the professoriate.

Service/Outreach
- Promoting the professional and/or academic advancement of underrepresented groups in the applicant’s field as well as their well-being.
- Enhancing diversity and equal opportunity through activities such as recruitment and mentoring of faculty and students.
- Participating in exceptional sustained committee or administrative service that has significantly enhanced policy or processes that advance the principles of equity and inclusion.
- Crucial contributions to campus culture, practices, or programs that have had a demonstrable and important effect in helping the campus foster IDBE.
- Community outreach activities that support IDBE.

Selection Committee

Director of Faculty Development, who will serve as committee chair
Past award faculty recipients (up to two)*
Members of the Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE)
Two student members selected by the OIE

*During the first year of the award, two faculty members selected by the Chair will serve instead.