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Institutional Values Awards

**The deadline for nominations for the Institutional Values Awards is 5 p.m., May 5, 2006.**

Please download our tips document for assistance in preparing your nomination.

Eligibility: Full-time EMU faculty or staff members in all employee groups may be nominated for an Institutional Values Award, which carries a $3,500 monetary stipend from the EMU Foundation. While full-time EMU employees may be nominated in more than one category, nominees may not receive more than one award in a given year. No employee may receive an award in the same category more than once (i.e., as an individual or member of a team) while employed at EMU. Nominees must maintain their full-time employee status at EMU through the date the award is presented.

Procedures: The nominator should prepare the nomination packet (absolute maximum of 10 single-sided, stapled pages with no attachments, no binder and no cover) and clearly answer the following four questions:

  1. What accomplishments or activities have made the nominee outstanding? Explain in detail and describe the results and importance of the overall contributions as well as previous responses to/recognition of the person’s work.

  2. How have these accomplishments illustrated the EMU value selected?

  3. What impact has the nominee’s accomplishments had on EMU in terms of depth of contributions and breadth of contributions (repeated or one-time savings, scope of results [i.e., one unit or entire institution], etc.)?

  4. How has EMU benefited from the nominee’s accomplishments in terms of linkage of nominee’s work with the EMU mission statement and other institutional values, image building for the institution by performance of quality work on EMU’s behalf, and sustainability of contributions?

The nomination packet must include:

  1. a completed nomination form: (Word document) (PDF document)
  2. a maximum of six pages of narrative (MS Word, 12 point Times Roman, 1" page margins), addressing the four questions identified above, and
  3. three one-page letters of support.

Materials may be handwritten or generated by word processing using a Times New Roman 12-point font and 1" margins; please number the pages. Individuals needing assistance in completing the nomination packet should contact a colleague or their supervisor. Members of the screening committee may not assist nominees or nominators, nor may they review nominations prior to submission. Nomination packets exceeding these maximums or otherwise not complying with these procedures will not be considered.

Ten (10) copies of the complete nomination packet must be received by the President's Office, 202 Welch Hall, by May 5, 2006.


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