Outstanding Scholarly
Achievement Award

Call for Nominations

The Research and Creative Activity Subcommittee is inviting nominations for the 2006-2007 Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award. The Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award (OSA) is given each year to a faculty member who has, over many years, made significant contributions to a discipline through scholarly activity, creative/artistic endeavors, research and publication. Through the OSA award, the university bestows honor and recognition upon individuals for their work accomplished at Sacramento State. Faculty members who have been at Sac State for at least ten academic years in a tenured or tenure track position are eligible for the award. The award will include a monetary grant for professional development.

Nominations can be made by any faculty member for a colleague or for her/himself.  The required nomination materials are available at http://www.csus.edu/research/funding/osaa/call_for_nomination.doc

The nominator may be asked to appear at a Subcommittee meeting to give an oral statement and answer questions from the Subcommittee.  Please note that one should not enclose any supporting materials such as published articles, book chapters, books, artistic and creative work, etc., along with the nomination. The Subcommittee may request the nominator/nominee to furnish such materials later, if needed.

The nomination materials should be submitted to the Office of Research Administration, mail stop 6111. Alternatively, all materials may be submitted electronically in a single Acrobat PDF file to: jtmanns@csus.edu. The deadline for receipt of all nomination materials for the 2007-2008 award is 5:00 p.m., March 14, 2008.

Announcement of the award will be made by April 11, 2008. The recipient of the award will deliver a public lecture on May 15, 2008 on some aspect of her/his work. If you have any questions about this award, please call Mark Brown at 8-6330 or email: mark.brown@csus.edu.