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2025 CAS Awards Nominations

2025 College of Arts & Sciences Award Nomination Form

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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 Information

1. Your/Nominator's Name:*
4. Your/Nominator's Affiliation with College of Arts & Sciences:*

Nominee's Contact Information

5. Nominee's Name:*
10. What is your NOMINEE'S affiliation with BU College of Arts & Sciences?*
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 Awards

Your nominee is eligible for the following awards:
Susan K. Jackson Award
IDEAL Award
11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?*

CAS Graduate Student Awards

Your nominee is eligible for the following awards:
Susan K. Jackson Award
IDEAL Award
11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?*

CAS Staff Awards

Your nominee is eligible for the following awards:
Susan K. Jackson Award
IDEAL Award
Outstanding Service Award
11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?*

CAS Faculty Awards

Your 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 Award
11. For which award(s) are you nominating this candidate?*

CAS Community and Service Awards

The 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.
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    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.
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      Outstanding Service Award Nomination

      Nominations for the Outstanding Service Award will be accepted until March 7, 2025. Awards will be presented at end-of-year events in May 2025.
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        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 Awards

        The 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.
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          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.

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