UCSD CAMPUS NOTICE University of California, San Diego |
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February 16, 2000 ACADEMIC SENATE MEMBERS SUBJECT: Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Academic Senate Dear Colleagues: Academic Senate service is crucial to our unique system of shared governance, and it ought to be encouraged in every way. I am therefore pleased to announce that the Senate's Committee on Committees is soliciting nominations for the systemwide Oliver Johnson Award for distinguished Senate service. Please read the following description of the award and the nomination
process. Should you wish to place someone's name in nomination, please send
a letter to Committee on Committees (Academic Senate, 0002) indicating the
reasons for the nomination, and include what is described below as "a
focused curriculum vitae" of your nominee. The deadline for Committee on
Committees to receive nominations is March 3. Committee on Committees will
review all information at its disposal and will make one nomination to the
systemwide Committee on Committees on behalf of the Senate at UCSD. OLIVER JOHNSON AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP IN THE ACADEMIC SENATE Criteria for Nomination The award is designed to honor a University of California Faculty member who has demonstrated:
Eligibility All members of the academic senate except those who have served on the Academic Council during the immediate 3 years prior to nomination. Process:
Requirements The following will be required to make a nomination to the UCOC, then to the Council:
The "NOTICE" article on the Oliver Johnson Award Senate Award Nominations Seeking to honor one of its own, the Academic Senate is asking for names of UC faculty who have made notable contributions to the work of the Senate. Once every two years, the statewide Academic Senate bestows the Oliver Johnson Award on a UC faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to both divisional and systemwide Senate governance. The award will be given this academic year, with announcement of a recipient to be made in May at the meeting of the Senate's Universitywide Assembly. Faculty on any of UC's campuses who wish to nominate a Senate member for the award should contact their divisional Committee on Committees. The award's first recipients were Elliot Brownlee of UC Santa Barbara and Carlton Bovell of UC Riverside who jointly received the honor in 1998. Oliver Johnson, a professor of philosophy, emeritus and longtime Senate activist at UC Riverside, made a substantial gift in 1996 to the systemwide Senate, the earnings from which are used to fund the award that bears his name. The Oliver Johnson Award provides a cash stipend to a faculty member who has demonstrated "outstanding and creative contributions to divisional and systemwide faculty governance." Any UC Senate member may be nominated for the award, with the exception of faculty who have served during the last three years on the statewide Senate's Academic Council (which makes the final decisions on award recipients). |