UCF-Research Incentive Award Program. The UCF-Research Incentive Award (“UCF-RIA”) program recognizes outstanding research, scholarly, or creative activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field, including interdisciplinary research and collaborations. Each academic year the University shall make available up to fifty-five UCF-RIA awards to eligible employees. The UCF-RIA award recognizes employee contributions to UCF’s key goal of achieving international prominence in research and creative activities.
UCF-Research Incentive Award Program. The UCF-Research Incentive Award 95 (“UCF-RIA”) program recognizes outstanding research, scholarly, or creative activity that advances the 96 body of knowledge in a particular field, including interdisciplinary research and collaborations. Each 97 academic year the University shall make available up to fifty-five UCF-RIA awards to employees. The 98 UCF-RIA award recognizes employee contributions to UCF’s key goal of achieving international 99 prominence in research and creative activities. 2017-07-11 Article 23 BOT Proposal #3 tracked from Status Quo 100 (c) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Awards (SoTLs). SoTLs use discovery, 101 reflection, and evidence-based methods to research effective teaching and student learning. While the 102 implementation of SoTL outcomes can result in teaching excellence and increasing teaching 103 effectiveness, this award recognizes not teaching excellence but scholarly efforts. Each For academic 104 year 2016-2017, the University shall make available up to ten (10) SoTL awards.
UCF-Research Incentive Award Program. The UCF-Research Incentive 127 Award (“UCF-RIA”) program recognizes outstanding research, scholarly, or creative 128 activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field, including interdisciplinary 129 research and collaborations. Each academic year the University shall make available at least 130 forty new UCF-RIA awards to employees, in addition to recycled awards. Additional 131 awards may be given as a result of rounding (e.g., a college allocated 5.5 awards rounds up 132 to six awards) and to recognize employee contributions to UCF’s key goal The UCF-RIA 133 award recognizes faculty contributions to UCF’s key goal of achieving international 134 prominence in research and creative activities. 135 136 (c) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Awards (SoTLs). SoTLs use discovery, 137 reflection, and evidence-based methods to research effective teaching and student learning. 138 While the implementation of SoTL outcomes can result in teaching excellence and 139 increasing teaching effectiveness, this award recognizes scholarly efforts rather than not 140 teaching excellence but scholarly efforts. Each academic yearFor academic year 2016- 141 2017, the University shall make available up toat least ten new (10) SoTL awards to 142 employees, in addition to recycled awards. The number of SoTL awards shall decline by one 143 per year to a new baseline of five SoTL awards is established in the 2021-2022 academic 144 year. 145 146 (d) UCF-Service and Partnership Awards. The UCF-Service and Partnership Award 147 (SPA) program recognizes outstanding contributions to service to the larger community and 148 partner organizations that transform lives. The SPA Award recognizes faculty contributions 149 to the University’s goal of being America’s leading partnership university. Each academic 150 year the University shall award make available ten UCF-SPA awards to employees 151 152 (d) Applications for Incentive Awards. Until the Office of Faculty Excellence is 153 able to make applications electronic, applications shall be compiled in a binder with a 1” 154 diameter ring. Binder and divider pockets shall remain empty. Applications shall include the 155 sections listed below compiled on 8.5” x 11” paper, 12 point font, and with 1” margins on 156 all sides.
