Nominations being accepted for the Exemplary Faculty Mentoring Award. 

Call for nominations for the second annual Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award. This awardrecognizes faculty mentors who go above and beyond the normal expectations of mentoring by acknowledging the positive impact faculty mentors make in the lives and careers of other faculty. The goal in creating this annual award is to ensure that the critical work of faculty mentoring is rewarded by our faculty mentoring program and recognized by our university.

Eligibility: Full-time faculty members at the rank of full or associate are eligible to be nominated. Nominees should have served as a faculty mentor, in a formal or informal capacity, to a junior/or midcareer faculty member over a continuous period of at least four semesters and have demonstrated success in the areas they mentor (e.g., research, teaching).

Timetable for Nomination and Award: 

• Deadline for submission of nominations: Friday, March 24, 2023.
• Nominations should be submitted to Jhamlet@niu.edu.
• Notification to the recipient: Week of April 3, 2023.

For more information and to complete a nomination, go to our faculty mentoring website and see Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award.