Faculty Awards FAQ

Nominating a faculty member is simple.

  1. Visit the Faculty Commons JSU webpage and select “JSU Faculty Awards” from the main menu bar.
  2. You will then be directed to the Faculty Awards homepage. There you will find a brief introduction to the JSU Faculty Awards process, the timeline for award submissions, the date for the Faculty Awards Ceremony, and tile boxes that link out to various informational pages.
  3. Select the “Award Details and Call for Nominations” tile box.
  4. You will be directed to a page that contains a list of links for each of our available JSU Faculty Awards. Select the award for which you would like to submit a nomination.
  5. You will be taken to the homepage for that award. There you will find the award description, criteria and eligibility, nomination procedures, required nomination documents, and the nomination deadline. Read this information carefully to know what you will need to do before submitting your nomination.
  6. At the bottom of each page for the individual awards, there is a red submission box that will navigate nominators to the Microsoft Form for that particular award. Please note that you must sign into your JSU Microsoft email account to access this form.
  7. Complete all fields of the form (there are three sections—Nominee Information, Nominator Information, and Required Nomination Documents) and submit.
  8. You will receive an email confirming that your submission was received.

Good question! We have a few different processes for evaluating faculty awards:

For the Betty and Earlon McWhorter Outstanding Teacher Award, the Faculty Scholar Lecturer Award, the Cleo and Carla Thomas Award for Outstanding Community Service, the Joanne E. Gates Research Award, the University Service Award, and the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award a selection committee (Faculty Honors and Grants Committee) comprised of faculty members from each college and the library review nomination packets and select winners. Visit the “Faculty Honors and Grants Committee” tile from the Faculty Awards homepage to see the current faculty representatives who review award nominations.

The Vice President of Information Technology reviews nomination applications and selects the winner for the Campus Technology Leadership Grant Award.

The William A Meehan Legacy Award is a prestigious honor selected by the Jacksonville State University Council of Deans.

Once nominations are submitted, the nominator will receive an email from Faculty Commons that confirms that the submission was received.  At that point, the nomination packet will be reviewed by the appropriate reviewing committee.

Because we want to ensure that all nominees are made aware of the fact that they have been nominated, Faculty Commons will send each nominee from each category a special nominee invitation prior to the Faculty Awards Ceremony via email. Special invitations will be sent to nominees in late March 2024.

Because research submitted for the Faculty Research Activity Award is not vetted or peer-reviewed and because everyone who submits research is recognized at Faculty Awards, it has been renamed and re-categorized as Faculty Research Activity Recognition. Our goal is to provide faculty who have conducted research in the past academic year a place to share their accomplishments.

Follow the steps below to submit:

  1. Visit the Faculty Commons JSU webpage and select “JSU Faculty Awards” from the main menu bar.
  2. You will then be directed to the Faculty Awards homepage. There you will find a brief introduction to the JSU Faculty Awards process, the timeline for award submissions, the date for the Faculty Awards ceremony, and tile boxes that link out to various informational pages.
  3. Select the “Faculty Research Activity Recognition” tile box.
  4. You will be taken to Faculty Research Activity Recognition
  5. There you will find a link that will navigate you to the Faculty Research Activity Recognition Microsoft Form. Please note that you must sign into your JSU Microsoft email account to access this form.
  6. Read carefully and complete all required fields in the form and submit.
  7. Research information submitted to the form will be pulled verbatim for the 2025 Faculty Awards Digital Program. This form is set to allow one response per faculty member. Submissions are limited to 3 research work entries per faculty member for program inclusion. Faculty Commons will print research titles, one-sentence descriptions, and URL links exactly as they are submitted and will neither correct typos or errors, nor will we reach out to faculty concerning errors, so be sure to proofread all submissions.
  8. You will receive an email confirming that your submission was received.