Carolina Trustee Professorship and Recipients

Nomination Process

Nominations may be submitted by students, faculty, department chairs, and deans at all USC campuses.

Required Materials for Nominee's file:

1. Nomination form (PDF)
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Short narrative summary of the nominee's teaching performance, during the past three years
4. Research accomplishments, during the past three years
5. Public service activities during the past three years
6. Letter of recommendation from the nominee's immediate academic supervisor
7. Two-page statement from the nominee.

Submission Deadline:

Nominee's files are due to the Office of the Provost by February 2, 2009. The Selection Committee will recommend a recipient to the Academic Affairs and Faculty Liaison Committee of the Board for approval and recommendation to the full Board. The winner will be announced at the spring General Faculty Meeting and spring commencement dinner.

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Information about the Award

Three Carolina Trustee Professorship Awards are presented annually in the amount of $2,000 each and given by the members of the Board of Trustees. Two awards are presented to Columbia campus professors and one to a professor at one of the other USC campuses. Faculty eligible for the Professorships are those who hold the rank of tenured full professor and demonstrate a record of teaching excellence as well as a record of outstanding performance in research and in public service activities. Excellence in teaching may be demonstrated in any phase of the University's educational mission and in any setting, from the undergraduate classroom to the graduate seminar, in laboratories, clinical practice, independent study, or supervised research.

The Office of the Provost shall make the solicitation of nominees. The nomination shall include a vita, a short narrative summary of the nominee's teaching performance, research accomplishments, and public service activities during the past three years, a letter of recommendation from the nominee's academic supervisor and a two-page statement from the nominee.

The committee is composed of the Chairman of the Board, the Chairman of the Academic Affairs and Faculty Liaison Committee of the Board, a representative of the President, the Provost, the Secretary of the Board and the Chairman of the Faculty Senate (who shall be ineligible to receive the award while serving in that post). The committee will recommend a recipient to the Academic Affairs and Faculty Liaison Committee of the Board for approval and recommendation to the full Board.

The Professorships are presented at the spring commencement dinner. Recipients of the award will be ineligible to receive the Carolina Trustee Professorship for five calendar years after last receiving the award.

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Award Recipients

2007	Walter B. Edgar	History
2007	Valdis O. Lumans	USC Aiken, History
2007	James M. Sodetz	Chemistry and Biochemistry
2006	David Cowart	English
2006	Kim E. Creek	Medicine
2006	Roberto Refinetti	USC Salkehatchie, Psychology
2005	Richard Adams	Chemistry and Biochemistry
2005	William O. Bearden	Business
2004	John Dawson	Chemistry and Biochemistry
2004	Lynn Mulkey	Sociology - USC Beaufort
2003	Chaden Djalali	Physics and Astronomy
2003	Robert E. Botsch	USC Aiken
2002	John Baynes	Chemistry and Biochemistry
2002	Phebe Davidson	English - USC Aiken
2001	Douglas F. Williams	SC Honors College
2001	Ronald Harshbarger	Mathematics - USC Beaufort
2000	Daniel L. Reger	Chemistry and Biochemistry
1999	William J. Padgett	Statistics

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