The 2019-2020 Academic Senate Distinction In MENTORING Awards

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

In 2009 the Academic Senate and the Committee on Academic Personnel began conferring the Distinction In Mentoring Awards.  The Academic Senate strives to recognize and celebrate excellence in faculty mentoring, an essential component to faculty success and institutional excellence. 

The Academic Senate Distinction in Faculty Mentoring Award recognizes exceptional mentoring by faculty, to faculty—and faculty to clinical and/or postdoctoral fellows.  (Exceptional mentoring by faculty to students is recognized by the Distinction In Teaching Award, which the Senate began in 1951.)  

All faculty in the Ladder Rank, In Residence, Clinical X, Health Sciences Clinical, and Adjunct series with UCSF appointments at 50% or more time (at UCSF itself or its affiliates such as Fresno, the VA, ZSFG, and BCHO) are eligible for nomination.  This award will be given in two categories: faculty at the rank of Associate Professor (in any series previously mentioned), and faculty at the rank of Full Professor. 

Recipients of this award will receive an award plaque, an honorarium, and will be recognized by the Senate in a ceremony to be held in spring 2020. 

UCSF faculty or fellows may nominate UCSF faculty for the Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Awards.

Nominators must submit materials online including filling out the online nomination form, and uploading a single PDF through the Senate Service Portal (found through MyAccess) no later than 4:00 PM Friday, November 22, 2019. Relevant links with additional information, DIM Nomination form (required), and webpage to upload nomination packet are at the bottom of this email.

The Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Awards Nomination Form is linked below, and also available via the Academic Senate website at senate.ucsf.edu. 

Nomination packets should be sent electronically and include (as one document) the following: 

• The Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Awards Nomination Form
• Letter of nomination from the nominator
• Letters of support from protégés: at least three (3) and no more than five (5).  Two letters must be from current protégés.
• Letters of support from colleagues: at least one (1) and no more than two (2).  One of these letters may be from the Department Chair, but a letter from the Department Chair is not required.
• Nominee’s current CV [NOTE: CV not included in page count]

Packets must include all of the above as one single .PDF. Nomination packets must be no more than 20 double-sided pages (40 pages total).  The CV and the nomination form do not count in this limit; however, the nomination form must be the cover or first page of the packet.  Letters may be addressed to “The Distinction In Mentoring Award Selection Committee” or simply “The DIM Award Selection Committee.”

Relevant links:
Academic Senate webpage (1-page) detailing specifics on the award and required information: https://senate.ucsf.edu/dit-dim-call-for-nominations
Link to Distinction in Mentoring Nomination Form: https://senate.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2019-09/DIM-Nomination_Form_2019-2020.pdf
Link to Senate Service Portal Award Upload (MyAccess single sign-on): https://senateserviceportal.ucsf.edu/v3/award/nominate

Additional questions may be directed to Alison Cleaver, Associate Director, UCSF Academic Senate at 476-3808 or [email protected].