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Eligibility

Continuing tenured or tenure-track faculty members who have been active in graduate student supervision/affairs in various capacities for a minimum of two years, and who have contributed significantly in areas such as graduate student development and/or advancement of the graduate studies enterprise, shall be eligible for this Award.

Up to three awards may be made each year. Minimally, one award will be in the two categories defined by the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies:

• Fine Arts/Humanities/ Social Sciences
• Engineering/Medical Sciences/Natural Sciences

Criteria

• Stimulates graduate students to think creatively and critically
• Participates in workshops aimed to enhance the graduate student experience
  
• Creates mechanisms for students to develop as scholars and as members of the greater community
  
• Develops innovative strategies/policies/procedures to address substantive graduate student issues
  
• Demonstrates commitment to the graduate student learning experience
  
• Develops mechanisms to foster research/performance and/or practice-based skill development
  
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for and innovation in graduate student instruction/teaching
  
• Provides exceptional guidance to students, in areas including, but not limited to, applying for internal/external financial support, and, career planning.

Process

Nominations should include a completed online nomination form and nomination letter from the Graduate Program Chair and graduate students. The nomination form includes the following questions:

• What are the exceptional aspects of the leadership in graduate studies provided by the nominee? (200 words max.)
• What are the ways in which the nominee fosters the education and scholarly development of graduate students? (200 words max.)
• What is the impact of the nominee's leadership on students? (200 words max.)

The nominator is encouraged to answer each question using specific examples where possible.

Required documents:

• One-page letters of support from the Graduate Program Chair and Department Chair (Department Chair letter is needed only in cases where the Graduate program Chair provided the nomination)
  
• Up to three (3) letters of support from current or former graduate students. Letters may be written and signed by more than one student.
  
• Abbreviated CV outlining nominee's record related to leadership in graduate studies

Email correspondence may be sent to to nominee's graduate caucus requesting an evaluation of the nominee's history of leadership.

The committee adjudicates the awards based on the above criteria.

Prizes

Each award consists of:

• $1000 graduate student travel award to be disbursed in the following year to a graduate student of their choice to attend a conference and present a paper
  
• an inscription of the recipient's name on a permanent plaque housed in the Thesis Defence Room
• a trophy inscribed with the recipient's name and award

Recipients will be presented with their award at a graduate awards ceremony.