Faculty Senate Awards

The Honors and Awards Council is currently soliciting nominations for the Spring semester for the following awards:

• Theodore Askounes Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award
• Distinguished Service Award
• Excellence in Research Award (Pre-tenure and Tenured)
• Kosove Distinguished Teaching and Service Award (Graduate and Undergraduate)
• Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award

Notification of Nomination forms should be submitted to fsenate@usf.edu by December 8, 2022.

Completed nomination packets must be submitted to fsenate@usf.edu by January 20, 2023.

Award for Innovation in Online Design and Teaching

The inaugural Award for Innovation in Online Design and Teaching recognizes exceptional online teaching practices and significant contributions to the design, development, and delivery of student-centered online teaching and learning.

The winner will receive $5,000 and will be featured as one of the Florida SUS Institutional Online Teaching Award recipients on the Board of Governor’s website, where they will showcase their effective teaching practices with other SUS faculty and have the opportunity to present at the TOPkit Workshop or Innovation Summit in 2024. Two finalists will also receive $1,000 each.

Deadline to submit nominations: Monday, January 23rd 2023, 11:59 pm

Deadline to submit submission materials: Monday, February 6th 2023, 11:59 pm

Subvention Funding

The Publications Council is returning to a once-a-semester meeting format. The purpose of this change is to better manage the large influx of applications for subvention and to enhance our ability to prioritize applications from junior faculty. For the Spring 2023 semester, the meeting will take place on April 7 and all applications for subvention must be received by March 31st.

The beginning of the semester is an exciting and busy time. In today's Monday Minute, we go over the Semester Prep Checklist, which provides you with the most common “to-do” items to knock out before the semester launches. 

Utilize these additional resources to streamline your semester preparations:

• Creating Your Syllabus Canvas Page Video Tutorial
• Importing a Canvas Course
• Canvas Course Link Validator
• Canvas Resource Page

Inside USF Podcast

After a distinguished 42-year career in the Marine Corps, which included three years as the head of U.S. Central Command, retired Gen. Kenneth F. “Frank” McKenzie has valuable perspectives to share about threats to global and U.S. security. He also discusses the important work of USF’s Global and National Security Institute as well as Cyber Florida, two organizations he now leads.

Listen to the latest podcast.