Performance, Creative Production or Creative Work

List of past recipients

Questions? Email facultyawards@utsa.edu.

ONE AWARD FOR EITHER TENURED/TENURE-TRACK/FIXED-TERM TRACK FACULTY

This award is to recognize, encourage and reward those individuals whose performance, creative production, or other related scholarly achievement in arts or design has manifested exceptional excellence and merit. This award is also meant to reward faculty whose artistic and/or design achievement has directly or indirectly benefited students, the San Antonio community (or other communities), and/or has made a significant contribution to the faculty member’s discipline.

Faculty nominated must have taught at least four consecutive long semesters (Fall-Spring) at UT San Antonio. The awards are based on performance for the calendar year of the award. Priority will be given to candidates who have not previously won the award. Previous recipients of the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Performance, Creative Production or Creative Works will be eligible for nomination after seven years.

The selection committee will consider the following criteria in selecting winners:

• The degree to which the artistic/design achievement is exceptionally meritorious
• The degree to which the artistic/design achievement has benefitted UT San Antonio students, the San Antonio community (or other communities) and/or has made a significant contribution to the faculty member’s discipline.

A selection committee composed of faculty will review nomination packets. The nomination packet for this award will consist of only the following, assembled into a single PDF file in the order indicated:

1. Complete award nomination form
2. Recent letter of support/nomination from a peer faculty colleague, department chair, or a college leader.
3. Self-statement by nominee (max. 2 pages) that:
   • Describes the specific artistic /design activity for which the faculty member is being nominated
   • Explains the impact of the artistic/design activity on UT San Antonio students, the community (San Antonio or others) and/or the nominee’s discipline
4. CV of nominee

Optional:

• A letter of support from a community member familiar with the faculty member’s contributions to the San Antonio (or other) community.

No additional materials should be submitted.

Each dean’s office should upload completed nomination packets by the deadline.

Previous recipients of the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Performance, Creative Production, or Other Scholarly Achievement are ineligible for nomination for this award.

Each college may submit a maximum number of three nominees (1 Tenured, 1 Tenure-Track, 1 Fixed-Term Track).

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