Nominations are open for the 2025 President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Nominations are being accepted for the 2025 President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration, an award that recognizes faculty members at the rank of professor who demonstrate exceptional achievement in integrating teaching, research or creative achievements and service have provided.

The award was established in 1996 to recognize faculty members who have excelled in all three areas of their profession. It consists of a specially designed certificate and a cash gift of $3,000. Award winners typically have a strong outreach component as a substantive part of their scholarship. The communities reached through faculty outreach activities are generally those not typically encountered in the conduct of normal scholarly activities.

Nominations are solicited from academic deans and should include evidence of all criteria, including excellence in teaching, research, or creativity, as well as service to the university, the public, and/or the profession. A resume and supporting letters from students and professional colleagues within and outside Penn State should highlight the candidate’s key accomplishments, particularly his or her outstanding teaching or mentorship and the innovative approaches the candidate has developed to engage the public – i.e., constituencies , which are traditionally not concerned with the discipline. Letters from the dean of the college and the department head or other appropriate academic administrators should demonstrate the candidate’s ability to integrate all aspects of his or her academic life into community outreach and/or public service. Nomination packets should be no longer than 30 pages.

One or two nominations for the President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration can be submitted via Microsoft Form. The deadline is January 6, 2025.

For more information, call Ann Clements, associate vice provost for faculty affairs, at 814-863-7494 or email [email protected].