The Faculty Senate Research Policy Committee (RPC) seeks nominations of faculty from all colleges at UNM for the annual Community Engaged Research Lectureship Award.
The Community Engaged Research Lectureship (CERL) is one of the highest honors that UNM can bestow upon a faculty member in recognition of exemplary community engaged research or community engaged creative works. The awardee will receive a $5,000 honorarium or a funding allocation to be placed in a research-related account and the awardee’s name will be included in the UNM Roll of Honor.
The factors that determine excellence in community engaged research or community engaged creative works vary widely by field and discipline and exist across the spectrum of engagement of the community in problem or need identification, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of outcomes and impacts. Nominators are strongly encouraged to review the nominee’s work and argue their interpretations of the meaning of community engagement as well as how the nominee’s work exemplifies it.
The nominee must be an active, full-time professor or exceptional associate professor at the time the nomination is submitted, in the tenure track, research track, or clinician-educator track. Persons nominated one year will be reconsidered for four additional years based on the same materials but must be re-nominated.
A nominator must be a full-time UNM faculty member (tenure track, research track, or clinician-educator track) and can be part of the nominee’s department leadership team, a general colleague, or a project partner. The nominator is responsible for assembling and submitting documentation in support of their nomination, in partnership with the nominee, through the on-line submission portal. Assistance will be provided to the nominator to complete the process, if requested. Complete instructions and a link to the portal can be found here: https://research.unm.edu/cerl.
Completed nominations, including all documentation, must be submitted by Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. We strongly encourage all nominators to register their intent to nominate by sending a brief email to Gena Garcia emajsmom@unm.edu