University of Michigan

 THE DISTINGUISHED FACULTY GOVERNANCE AWARD  

Faculty members who consistently place University-wide interests on the same level as personal career and departmental interests represent a scarce resource that all faculty members treasure.  Their concern with the general welfare protects and nourishes our individual welfare.

The kinds of corporate activity these University citizens take on give us a secure sense of collective conscience.  Faculty governance is the arena in which these citizens serve, and it is faculty government through the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs that recognizes their accomplishments with this award.

The Distinguished Faculty Governance Award was established by SACUA in 1986 and is funded by the Alumni Association.

Former Award Recipients

2007    Fred Askari, Medicine
          George Brewer, Medicine
2006   William D. Ensminger, Medicine
2005    Cynthia Luz Marcelo, Medicine
2004    Louis G. D'Alecy, Medicine
           William W. Schultz, Engineering
2003    Charles B. Smith, Medicine
2002    Alphonse R. Burdi, Medicine
2001    Jackie Lawson, UM-Dearborn 
           Ron Lomax, Engineering
2000    Thomas Dunn, Chemistry, LSA (Emeritus)
1999    Sheila Feld, Social Work
          John T. Lehman, Biology, LSA
1998    Thomas E. Moore, Biology, LSA
1997    Beth Glover Reed, Social Work
1996    Theodore J. St. Antoine, Law
1995    Gayl D. Ness, Sociology, LSA
1994    Peggie J. Hollingsworth, Pharmacology
1993    Donald R. Brown, Psychology, LSA
1992    Claude A. Eggertsen, Education (Emeritus)
1991    Daniel E. Moerman, Anthropology, UM-Dearborn
1990    Wilbert J. McKeachie, Psychology, LSA
           William C. Stebbins, Medicine, Otorhinolaryngology
1989    Donald R. Deskins, Jr., Sociology, LSA
1988    Cecil Nesbitt, Mathematics, LSA
1987    Ralph A. Loomis, English, LSA
1986    Janice B. Lindberg, Nursing
           Wilfred Kaplan, Mathematics, LSA

The criterion for the award is distinguished service to faculty governance over several years with an emphasis on university-wide service. 

Current SACUA members are ineligible, as are those members from the immediate past year, click here for a list of those ineligible.  All members of the University Senate (assistant, associate and full professors, research scientists, and librarians who are Senate Members) are eligible.  

To assist SACUA in the selection of the award recipient we request that you submit a short statement describing the nominee's service to faculty governance and details of any accomplishments related to that service.  The deadline for receipt of nominations is March 31, 2009.  Please send nominations, supporting statements, and the names, titles, and addresses of both nominee and the nominator to:

Governance Award Nomination
Faculty Senate Office
6048 Fleming, 1340

If you have any questions about the award or the nomination process, please contact the Faculty Senate Office at 764-0303.  Thank you for your participation.

The deadline for submission of the Awards Nomination is March 31, 2009.