• SUNY Distinguished Professor/SUNY Distinguished Librarian must have held rank of Professor/Librarian for five years minimally.
• SUNY Distinguished Professor must be greater or equal to one year full-time UB service.
• SUNY Distinguished Librarian, Distinguished Service Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor must be greater or equal to three years of full-time UB service.
• Retired or faculty who will retire before promotion to the rank are ineligible.
• Faculty holding a concurrent administrative appointment above the level of department chair for which they receive extra compensation are ineligible for Distinguished Service Professor.
• Faculty holding Distinguished Faculty rank may not be nominated for another Distinguished Faculty rank.

Dossiers must include all items:

• Nomination portfolio cover sheet.
• Nomination abstract with a 200-word maximum.
• Nominee's CV noting:
  • Department.
  • Date of appointment to SUNY system.
  • Appointment to highest rank attained and corresponding date.
  • Additional guidance on Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Service Professor CV**.
• For Distinguished Teachign Professor: Course evaluation summaries and grade distributions.**
• Internal letters.
  • Five required and maximum (chair, dean, provost* letters count toward total).
  • Distinguished Teaching Professor: One required letter from nominee's former student.
  • CVs not required.
• External letters.
  • Five required and maximum from prominent disinterested evaluators from diverse areas of the nominee's career.
  • Complete CVs preferred; abbreviated CVs/biosketches permitted.

*Provost letter will be added to dossier; no action needed by unit.
**See SUNY Distinguished Nominations website.

• Nominees must be full-time faculty.
• Nominees for Scholarship and Creative Activities, Faculty Service and Teaching may be tenured/tenure-track or non-tenure track faculty, including Lecturer.
• Nominees must have completed three years of full-time appointment within the previous five years (years do not need to be consecutive) at the nominating campus prior to the nomination year.
• Faculty holding Distinguished Ranks may not be nominated for an Excellence Award.
• Recipients of an Excellence Award may not be nominated for an Excellence Award in another category within a five-year interval.
• Individuals holding academic appointments preceded by a ‘visiting’ desgination are ineligible.
• Individuals should not be nominated for promotion to Distinguished Rank and Excellence Award in the same academic year.
• Posthumous nominations are ineligible.

• Nominees must be Adjunct faculty as generally defined by the specific SUNY institution.
• Nominee must have taught, over the preceding five years a total of courses equivalent to half of a three-year full-time teaching load in the department.
• Nominee may also serve as adjunct faculty at other education institutions.
• Nominee must be employed by the nominating campus at the time of nomination.
• Retirees or individuals serving in full-time professional/academic positions are ineligible.

Dossiers must include all items in the following order:

• Transmittal letter.*
• Nomination procedures.*
• Summary presentation cover sheet.
• Candidate's Summary: The rationale for the nomination and the primary document available for members at the system-level review. It must address how the nominee excels in each criterion.
• Dean's letter and evaluative letters.
• Nominee's current CV.

*Prepared by the President's Office; no action needed by unit.

• Tenure-track or tenured faculty (Assistant Professor and Associate Professor).
• Nomination within first seven years of initial appointment date.
• Must be a current SUNY faculty who has been employed at least one year by SUNY.

• Nominator must have sufficient disciplinary expertise to determine nominee’s qualifications.
• Faculty may not apply or self-nominate.

Nomination Portfolio must include:

• Abstract (1400 character maximum including spaces) must explain the nominee’s scholarship or creative work and explain its innovative qualities along with its current and potential impact in the field.
• Nomination letter (two-page maximum) must explain nominator’s connection to nominee and disciplinary qualifications for assessing the nominee’s scholarship or creative work. Bulk of the letter must provide evidence of current recognition and impact of nominee’s work and the promise for field-defining impact in the future. Must also explain strengths of nominee’s work/recognition achieved in relation to early career status.
• External letter of support (two-page maximum) from a senior scholar in the field who is not from the nominee’s dissertation committee or from their degree-granting institution. Must explain their qualifications for making a determination of the nominee’s caliber as a scholar/artist and provide evidence for the current recognition & impact of the nominee’s work and the promise for future field-defining impact.
• Nominee’s brief CV (five-page maximum).

Notes:

• Each unit may submit one nomination.
• Submissions that include additional information or exceed page limits will be disqualified.