Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship, or Creative Accomplishment

This award recognizes demonstrated superior achievement in research, scholarship, or creative activities. Eligible nominees will be full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty. (A stipend of $3,000 accompanies this award.) The following criteria will be used:

• Contribution: The primary criterion is outstanding, demonstrated, significant contributions over an extended period of time to the arts, scholarly literature, or to research and scholarship.
  
  
• Achievement: There must be evidence that the nominee has performed creative/scholarly/ research work of distinction as demonstrated by publication or artistic production and evaluation by peer review.
  
  
• Currency: Nominees shall be scholars who keep current with developments and findings in their fields.