Guidelines for Nomination

Nominations must originate from individuals holding faculty rank at Elon University and be supported through letters of recommendation by colleagues qualified to judge the candidate’s work.

General criteria include:

• The nominee is a full-time member of the Elon University faculty.
• The nominee has made an original contribution to his or her field.
• The nominee’s contribution has been exposed to critical appraisal by professional peers through publication, exhibition, or personal presentations.
• The nominee has shown evidence that his or her creative activity has been prolonged and is ongoing. One indication of this would be a record of publications, presentations, artistic performances, or exhibitions spanning a period of time including the present or recent past.
• The nominee must have completed a significant amount of scholarly work during his/her affiliation with Elon. Scholarly activities completed prior to joining Elon may serve to strengthen a potential recipient’s nomination.
• The nominee normally will have completed at least four years of full-time teaching and service at Elon University prior to being eligible for nomination.
• The Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs will solicit nominations for the Distinguished Scholar Award in the fall semester. Nominations originate from the faculty and should be sent to the chair of the Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee. Members of the selection committee are not eligible for nomination.
• Nominees will submit a portfolio in support of their candidacy.
• Nominees will solicit at least four, no more than eight, letters of recommendation in support of their scholarship from colleagues qualified to judge their work. At least one of the letters must come from a colleague of faculty rank employed by Elon and at least three from faculty colleagues not employed by Elon University. Nominees who are applying again may use letters from the previous three years.