Faculty Merit Award

9.1.2.4.1     Merit awards may be distributed by the PVPAA. These awards will be made according to the criteria published by the PVPAA. Nominations for the awards can be made by an individual faculty member, the departmental faculty, or the department head to the dean of the faculty member’s college. The Association will be notified in writing of merit awards. The Board’s decisions in making these individual merit awards shall not be grievable.

9.1.2.4.2     Faculty who have held the rank of Professor for at least nine (9) fall and winter semesters may apply for merit awards in the amount of $5,000 not to base. Faculty are eligible to receive merit awards once every five (5) years. Criteria for such an award are the same as those required to earn promotion to the rank of Professor as specified in Article V of this agreement and departmental bylaws using an evaluation period that begins at the time of successful application for promotion to the rank of Professor, or since the last successful application for this type of merit. The application will consist of the regular five-(5)-year evaluation materials and a current curriculum vitae. If more than five (5) years have passed since a successful application for promotion to Professor or the last application for a merit award, the faculty member may include in their application all years since their successful application for promotion to Professor or their previous merit award.

Faculty will submit applications to their departmental evaluation committee by February 1. The evaluation committee will deliver its evaluations of proposals to the FRC by April 1. The FRC will make a recommendation for merit awards to the PVPAA by April 15. Merit awards will be announced by the PVPAA by April 25 and will appear in the last paycheck of the winter semester.

No provision of this Article shall be interpreted so as to compel the University to make more than 8 merit awards per year.

DEADLINE: 2/1/2023 (Department Evaluation Committee rankings due to Faculty Review Committee by 4/1); MAX AWARD: $5,000

 

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QUESTIONS: AAUP; 227.1602
AAUP website
SAMPLE CV
SAMPLE PROPOSALS *
Note that the guidelines may have changed since these proposals were awarded

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Faculty who have held the rank of Professor for five years may apply for the Merit Award. Faculty can reapply every year if unsuccessful but must wait five years to reapply after a successful application. Criteria for the Merit Award are the same as those required to earn a promotion to the rank of Professor.

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Applications for the Merit Award consists of the regular 5-year faculty evaluation materials (eight-page limit) and a current curriculum vitae. Applications must be submitted to the department no later than February 1. Department evaluation committees must submit rankings to the Faculty Review Committee by April 1.

Faculty who receive a Reassigned Time Award are required to submit a final report by January 31 for Fall Semester awards and June 15 for Winter Semester awards.  The report guidelines and submission instructions can be found here.  In addition, a hard copy of the report must be submitted as part of the faculty member’s subsequent evaluation.  If an award recipient fails to submit a final report, the applicant may not apply for a new grant for at least one year from the submission date of the belated final report.

FINAL REPORT GUIDELINES FOR NMU INTERNAL GRANTS

TIMELINE FOR REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS:

End of First Week of Semester - A single PDF document with all proposal elements discussed below must be submitted to grants@nmu.edu by the end of the first week of class in that semester. The Office of Sponsored Programs will coordinate with each department for departmental evaluation and ranking.

End of Third Week of Semester - Departmental committee sends ranked evaluations of applications to Faculty Grants Committee. 

End of Fifth Week of Semester - The Faculty Grants Committee will make recommendations for awards, which will be announced by the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.