The Indiana University Kokomo Annual Research & Creative Activity Award recognizes outstanding faculty performance in research, scholarly and creative activity, including the scholarship of teaching and learning. The award, which includes a $2,500 stipend and recognition at the annual campus Fall Convocation, is bestowed each academic year upon one Senior Faculty and one Junior Faculty recipient each academic year.
All full-time faculty members at IU Kokomo who do not hold an academic administrative post (i.e., Assistant/Associate Dean, Dean, Assistant/Associate VCAA) are eligible for this award.
Applicants for this award must have been on the faculty at IU Kokomo for at least one full academic year.
Those eligible for the Senior Faculty Annual Research & Creative Activity Award are Associate and Full Professors, Senior Lecturers and Teaching Professors, and Clinical Associate and Clinical Full Professors.
Those eligible for the Junior Faculty Annual Research & Creative Activity Award are Assistant Professors, Lecturers, and Clinical Assistant Professors.
Applicants must demonstrate outstanding performance in research, scholarship or creative activity during the period January 1 through December 31 of the previous year.
Faculty may not receive the Annual Research & Creative Activity Award and the Distinguished Research & Creative Activity Award in the same calendar year.
Only relevant work completed while a faculty member at IU Kokomo will be considered for the award.
Faculty may not receive the Annual Research & Creative Activity Award more than once in three calendar years.
Applications for the Annual Research & Creative Activity Award are evaluated using three criteria of equal weight:
Quantity. The overall volume of relevant research, scholarly or creative activities meets academic unit and university standards for excellent productivity, evidence of which may include, but is not limited to:
Quality. The relevant research, scholarly or creative activity is disseminated through top-tier, peer-reviewed publications and selective venues, evidence of which may include, but is not limited to:
Impact. The relevant research, scholarly or creative activity is influential and significant to the faculty member's discipline, including contributions to teaching and learning in that field, evidence of which may include but is not limited to:
Applications for the Annual Research & Creative Activity Award must be submitted as an accessible Word document with correctly formatted headings and hyperlinks, to the Office of Academic Affairs (koacadem@iu.edu) no later than April 1 of each year.
Applications should be in the form of a Narrative Summary not to exceed 10 single-spaced pages in length which thoroughly but succinctly provides an overview of the cumulative evidence of quantity, quality and impact to support a claim of distinguished performance.
The narrative should directly address the three award criteria, either in separate sections or a single integrated discussion that provides context, explanation and summation of relevant activities. The narrative should include bookmarks or embedded links to relevant information as needed to clarify or corroborate work completed.
Applications must include an up-to-date CV and a letter of support from the Dean which addresses the quantity, quality and impact of the faculty member’s research, scholarship or creative activities relative to that academic unit’s standards and expectations of productivity.
Applications may include a maximum of two solicited or unsolicited letters of support from external peer reviewers qualified to comment on the quantity, caliber, significance and influence of the faculty member’s cumulative research, scholarly or creative activities within the discipline or field.
Copies of letters of support, acceptance letters, articles, presentations, chapters, and any other relevant research, scholarly or creative activity evidence such as photos of exhibitions, promotional pieces, etc. should be submitted separately or linked within the Narrative Summary.
Applications are reviewed by the Faculty Research & Creative Activity Awards Committee, which makes a recommendation to the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs no later than May 15.
The Awards Committee is composed of seven faculty members appointed by the EVCAA for one-year terms, based on nominations from academic Deans, with multiple and sequential terms permitted.
The School of Business, Division of Education, School of Nursing & Allied Health Professions, School of Sciences, and the Library may nominate one representative to the Awards Committee each year; the School of Humanities & Social Sciences may nominate two representatives each year.
Ideally, a majority of members of the Awards Committee will be tenured/tenure-track faculty with excellent records of research, scholarly or creative accomplishment. Previous award recipients are especially encouraged to serve. Typically, no more than two Committee members will be pre-tenured faculty.
Applicants for the Annual Research & Creative Activity award may not serve on the Awards Committee in the year of their application. Committee members should recuse themselves from deliberations regarding applicants with whom they have collaborated on research, scholarly or creative projects that are part of their application.
If there are no applicants for the Senior Faculty Annual Research & Creative Activity Award or if no applicants are judged to have met the criteria for excellence, a second award may be given to a junior faculty applicant.
If there are no applicants for the Junior Faculty Annual Research & Creative Activity Award or if no applicants are judged to have met the criteria for excellence, a second award may be given to a senior faculty applicant.
The Committee report to the EVCAA should include a rationale for its recommendations and a summary of each applicant’s strengths or areas for improvement relative to the three award criteria. The final selection of award recipients rests with the EVCAA.
The Awards Committee may decline to recommend, and the EVCAA may decline to bestow the Junior and/or the Senior Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award if no applicants in a given year are judged to have met the standards of productivity and exceptional performance associated with this recognition.
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