SECTION SIX: Honors and Other Evidence of Merit or Recognition, Including Contracts and Grants

General Information

1) Do not include certificates or thank-you letters in this section of the dossier.

Budget Council Report

The budget council should provide a brief statement describing and assessing the relevant evidence of exceptional academic or professional merit. The budget council statement should identify which of its members were responsible for evaluating this area of service. The typed names and signatures of those budget council members who prepared the assessment should be included on the statement. Honors include:

• grants
• medals
• fellowships
• invitations to speak (e.g., at other universities, at professional society meetings, and in other venues)

Departmental statements on special honors should note the relative prestige of any honors or other professional recognition that the candidate may have received. It is important to distinguish between those awards made on the basis of promise and those awarded on the basis of accomplishment.

Actively seeking and successfully obtaining external funding is a consideration for promotion in those departments where external funding is the norm. For those departments for which external funding is not common, a comment to that effect should be part of the department’s statement.