California State University, Long Beach
Policy Statement
85-09 (Rev.)
May 29, 1990
Obsolete Policy
Meritorious Performance And Professional Promise Award
I. Introduction
This document is designed to implement the provisions of Article
31, Sections 31.17-31.25 of the Memorandum of Understanding
for Unit Three. The term "faculty" as used in this document
means all faculty, including full- and part-time lecturers, participants
in early and pre-retirement programs, coaches, and librarians.
II. Allocation of Awards
When notice has been given by the Chancellor concerning the number
of awards to be provided to the campus, the President shall allocate
the number of awards to each school or appropriate administrative
unit pro rata based on the number of full-time equivalent
faculty (FTEF).
III. Eligibility to Apply for the Award
All faculty members covered by the Memorandum of Understanding
for Unit Three are eligible to apply, or be nominated by a
member of the University community, for a Meritorious Performance
and Professional Promise Award. A person nominated will be considered
only upon filing a formal application.
IV. Purpose of the Award
A Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award shall
be given in recognition of an individual's outstanding performance
in the areas of teaching, other professional accomplishments, or
service to the University community during the preceding three years.
This award is also intended to serve as an incentive for extraordinary
professional promise.
V. Criteria to be Used in Evaluating
Applicants
The following criteria shall be used by appropriate faculty review
committees and by school deans/directors in evaluating applicants
for the Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award.
An applicant shall demonstrate satisfactory performance in teaching,
creative and scholarly activities, and University service (except
for temporary employees), and shall demonstrate a significant contribution
to the University in at least one of the following areas of achievement
or shall demonstrate potential for future professional accomplishments.
A. Teaching or instructionally related performance as demonstrated
by activities such as outstanding professional accomplishments,
excellent instruction, significant curricular development, superior
program development, development of effective instructional materials,
or other indicators.
B. Professional accomplishments as demonstrated by activities
such as significant publications, creative work and performances,
exhibits, review work, bibliographic projects, research, grant-
supported activities, consulting activity of a scholarly character,
offices held in professional organizations, panels and workshops
organized for professional meetings, participation in professional
meetings (delivered papers, addresses, et cetera), or other indicators.
C. Service to the University community as demonstrated
by performance such as exceptional leadership in University governance
and campus life at the department, school, university, or system
levels, or other meritorious service consonant with the University's
mission.
VI. The Application
Any eligible individual may apply for the Meritorious Performance
and Professional Promise Award by forwarding via the dean's/director's
office to the chair of the elected school faculty review committee
a summary of all pertinent activities during the preceding six semesters
in the areas of the established criteria.
If the applicant has been the recipient of this award within the
past two years, then primary consideration shall be given to meritorious
performance since the last award.
VII. Time Lines
The President shall establish deadlines for the submission of materials
by applicants for submission of recommendations by the school faculty
review committee to the dean/director and for concurrence by the
dean/director.
VIII. Faculty Review and Recommendation
Procedures
The full-time probationary and tenured faculty of each school,
or appropriate administrative unit, shall elect a faculty review
committee of not less than three members for the purpose of reviewing
applicants for the Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise
Award. Members of the committee shall be full-time, tenured individuals
(except for coaches) who receive a majority vote of the ballots
cast by members of the represented unit. An applicant for an award
shall not be eligible to serve on the school faculty review committee.
The committee, after consideration of applications submitted, shall
forward its recommendations to the dean/director within the stipulated
deadline. The number of candidates recommended shall not exceed
the number of awards allocated by the President to the school or
administrative unit.
If the dean/director concurs with the recommendations, the awards
shall be implemented as recommended.
If the dean/director disagrees with the recommendations forwarded
by the faculty review committee, both the recommendations of the
dean/director and those of the committee shall be forwarded to the
President.
The President shall transmit both sets of recommendations for review
by the Faculty Personnel Policies Council of the Academic Senate
which shall forward its recommendations to the President for a final
determination. If the President disagrees with the Faculty Personnel
Policies Council's recommendation, the President shall state reasons
therefore and return the denied application to the originating faculty
review committee with the request to forward a substitute recommendation
to the dean/director in accordance with the provisions stated above.
If a school or unit committee fails to recommend as many candidates
as permitted, the remaining awards shall be allocated to other schools
and units on the pro rata basis utilized for the initial allocation
of the awards.
In no case shall an award be made without a recommendation from
the faculty review committee elected by the school or appropriate
administrative unit.
The collective and separate judgment of the faculty and the President
shall not be grievable except on procedural grounds.
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