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ACADEMIC SENATE: SAN DIEGO DIVISION

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.

                                                       Stephen Cox
                                                       Chair, Committee on Committees



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:

  1. Outstanding and creative contributions to divisional and systemwide faculty governance.
  2. A pattern of excellence in serving the senate.
  3. Evidence of major impact on the vitality and effectiveness of faculty governance.
  4. Exceptional abilities in effectively working and negotiating with different university constituents.

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:

  1. UCOC will activate a process of nomination at the beginning of every other academic year.
  2. Nominations will be solicited and reviewed by Divisional Committee on Committees (COC) every two years. Divisional COCs are expected to develop and use a systematic process of selection.
  3. UCOC will review divisionally endorsed nominations and documentation and will recommend two nominations to the Council.
  4. The Council will make and ratify the final decision of the candidate to receive the award.
  5. An announcement of the recipient will be made during the last Legislative Assembly meeting of the academic year. Announcements will be made on even years.

Requirements

The following will be required to make a nomination to the UCOC, then to the Council:

  1. A nomination letter by the chair of the Divisional COC not to exceed 3 pages.
  2. A focused curriculum vitae not to exceed 2 pages outlining the candidates academic senate service.
  3. An endorsement letter with above documentation by UCOC chair submitted to the Council Chair.


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).