2025 College of Arts & Sciences Award Nomination Form "*" indicates required fields Step 1 of 4 25% Thank you for your interest in submitting a nomination for the 2025 CAS awards! This form is designed to simplify the nomination process for the many awards CAS grants each year. First, we will ask for your contact information and your nominee's contact information. We will also ask for your nominee's affiliation with CAS; this will determine which awards they are eligible for. Finally, you will be invited to select the award(s) for which you would like to submit a nomination. The form will populate with the specific instructions and criteria for each selected award.Your Contact Information1. Your/Nominator's Name:* First Last 2. Your/Nominator's Pronouns: 3. Your/Nominator's Email Address:* 4. Your/Nominator's Affiliation with College of Arts & Sciences:* Undergraduate Student Graduate Student Staff Member Faculty Member Other Nominee's Contact Information5. Nominee's Name:* First Last 6. Nominee's Pronouns: 7. Nominee's Title:* 8. Nominee's Department/Program:* 9. Nominee's Email Address:* 10. What is your NOMINEE'S affiliation with BU College of Arts & Sciences?* Undergraduate Student Graduate Student Staff Member Faculty Member Your nominee's affiliation determines which awards they are eligible for. To nominate alumni for the Distinguished Alumni Award or the IDEAL Award, please click here. CAS Undergraduate AwardsYour nominee is eligible for the following awards:Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?* Susan K. Jackson Award (*Undergraduate seniors only) IDEAL Award Select AllCAS Graduate Student AwardsYour nominee is eligible for the following awards:Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?* Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award Select AllCAS Staff AwardsYour nominee is eligible for the following awards:Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award Outstanding Service Award11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?* Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award Outstanding Service Award Select AllCAS Faculty AwardsYour nominee is eligible for the following awards:Endowed Awards: The Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching The Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching The Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching Teaching Awards: College of Arts & Sciences Award for Distinction in First Year Undergraduate Education Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education Dean's Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching Community, Equity, and Inclusion Awards: Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?* Endowed Award (The Gitner Award, The Neu Family Award, and/or The Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award) College of Arts & Sciences Award for Distinction in First Year Undergraduate Education Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education Dean's Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching Susan K. Jackson Award IDEAL Award Select All CAS Community and Service AwardsThe Susan K. Jackson Award recognizes faculty, staff, and students who create and nurture community in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University. The IDEAL Award is awarded annually to three CAS community members whose leadership advances the College’s strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities and best exemplifies CAS’s aspiration to create a welcoming and inclusive community for all. You may use the form below to nominate your candidate for one or both of these awards. Please tailor your letter of recommendation to the specific criteria of the award(s) in question. Nominations will be accepted until Friday, March 7, 2025. Awards will be presented at end-of-year events in May 2025.How do you know the nominee?*Please attach a letter to support your nomination.* Drop files here or Select files Max. file size: 100 MB. Please provide specific, demonstrable examples of your nominee's ongoing contributions to the CAS community and the impacts of their efforts. Nomination letters must be 850 words or fewer and submitted in PDF format.If you are nominating an undergraduate senior, please attach the nominee's resume as a PDF. Drop files here or Select files Max. file size: 100 MB. Outstanding Service Award NominationNominations for the Outstanding Service Award will be accepted until March 7, 2025. Awards will be presented at end-of-year events in May 2025.Please attach a letter outlining why you are nominating this staff member for an Outstanding Service Award.* Drop files here or Select files Max. file size: 100 MB. In your letter, please provide examples of a staff member’s achievements in one or more of the following areas: - Performs responsibilities at an outstanding level - Demonstrates an exceptional level of service, support, and care for our students - Demonstrates a positive, professional attitude and serves as a role model for others - Promotes exceptional working relationships with faculty and administrators in their center, department, program, or office - Engages in productive collaborations with colleagues from other areas of the University that serve their unit and CAS/GRS exceedingly well - Represents CAS/GRS and their unit especially well at campus events and administrative meetings - Supports University-wide endeavors and demonstrates exemplary skills with the implementation of new initiatives CAS Teaching AwardsThe selection committee will base its recommendations on nominees’ course evaluations and letters of nomination. Please click here for more information about the award(s). You may use the form below to nominate your candidate for one or several teaching awards. Please tailor your letter of recommendation to the specific criteria of the award(s) in question. Nominations will be accepted until Friday, March 7, 2025. Awards will be presented at end-of-year events in May 2025.Please attach a letter outlining why you are nominating this faculty member.* Drop files here or Select files Max. file size: 100 MB. Letters of nomination are weighted heavily in this process. Better letters will not simply assert a nominee’s excellence but will provide evidence for it. Letters of nomination may present evidence of various types—including personal testimony, historical narrative, anecdote, reports of teaching observations, or quantitative data of different sorts—but they should be detailed and specific enough to allow the selection committee to independently assess a nominee’s teaching excellence. CAPTCHA