This award provides recognition to an early career faculty member (IRC or Tenured/Tenure-Track) who demonstrates excellence in research, and the promise of continued outstanding contributions.
Early Career Award for Research Criteria 2024
Early Career Award for Research Checklist 2024-form
Nominations are due to the Office of Faculty Affairs on Friday, February 23, 2024.
This award provides recognition to an early career faculty member (IRC or Tenured/Tenure-Track) who demonstrates excellence in creative work, and the promise of continued outstanding contributions.
Early Career Award for Creative Work Criteria 2024
Early Career Award for Creative Work Checklist 2024
Nominations are due to the Office of Faculty Affairs on Friday, February 23, 2024.
The Denver Campus selects annual awards for Excellence in Teaching (IRC, Tenured/Tenure-Track, and Lecturer), Leadership and Service (IRC and Tenured/Tenure-Track), Research/Creative Work (IRC and Tenured/Tenure-Track), Early Career Research, Early Career Creative Work, Librarianship, Faculty Inclusive Excellence, and the Provost's Award for Practices Related to Instructional, Research, and Clinical (IRC) Faculty.
For the Excellence in Teaching, Leadership and Service, and Research/Creative Work awards, the schools and colleges and library select winners, who become the nominees for the campus-level awards. Committees comprised of the winners (school-, college- and library-level, as well as campus-level) from the past two years select the campus-level winners for Teaching (IRC and Tenured/Tenure-Track), Leadership and Service (IRC and Tenured/Tenure-Track), and Research/Creative Work (IRC and Tenured/Tenure-Track).
The winner of the Award for Teaching by a Lecturer is selected by a committee of faculty members on the IRC Roadmap Committee.
The winner of the Faculty Inclusive Excellence Award is selected by a five-person selection committee with broad campus representation.
The winner of the Librarianship Award is selected by the Auraria Library faculty.
The winners of the new Early Career Awards for Excellence in Research and Excellence in Creative Work are selected by members of the University Research Council.
The winner of the Practices Related to IRC Faculty is selected by a committee from the University of Colorado Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors (UCDALI).
Nominations for the 2024 awards are due in the Office of Faculty Affairs on Friday, February 23, 2024.
Award winners will be announced in April.
Click on the links below for information on eligibility, criteria, and procedures/documentation:
Nominations for the Excellence in Librarianship Award are due within the Auraria Library on Friday, January 19, 2024.
Find the procedures and criteria here:
Questions? Contact Betsy Metzger at betsy.metzger@ucdenver.edu or 303.315.2107.