Ada Comstock Lecture Series
Nomination Deadline June 20, 2007
Program Purpose and Description
This prestigious lecture series has been established to acknowledge and honor the scholarly accomplishments and leadership of distinguished women faculty at the University of Minnesota and to offer a forum for them to share their insights and ideas with a campus and community audience. One scholar from the sciences or engineering and one scholar from the humanities, arts, or social sciences will be selected to present a lecture, one during the fall semester and one during the spring semester.
Eligibility
Eligibility is limited to tenured women faculty employed at the University of Minnesota for at least five years. While it is anticipated that the majority of Ada Comstock lecturers will be at the rank of full professor, we recognize that exceptional cases may exist among those who have achieved prominence at earlier stages of their career. Scholarly achievement such as that recognized by the Distinguished Women Scholar’s Award, the Regents Professorship, the McKnight Distinguished Professorship, and the Fulbright Foundation Award, is an essential characteristic for those chosen to deliver the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture.
Nomination Procedure
A nomination letter recommending a scholar’s selection as the fall or spring Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecturer may be submitted by a faculty member’s department chair/head, collegiate dean, or faculty colleague.
Deadline: June 21, 2007
One nomination letter (maximum two pages) and the scholar’s curriculum vita should be submitted to the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Selection Committee by4:30 p.m. on this date.
Selection Committee and Criteria
The University of Minnesota Women’s Faculty Cabinet will serve as the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Selection Committee. Cabinet members are: Carol Chomsky (Law School); Rhonda Franklin Drayton (Institute of Technology), Peggy Nelson (College of Liberal Arts); Elizabeth Arendt (Medical School); Heidi Barajas (College of Education & Human Development); and Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (College of Design). Selection criteria in order of importance to the committee are:
- Quality of the nominee’s scholarly or creative achievements, with emphasis on originality, imagination and innovation.
- National and international reputation and impact of the nominee's scholarly work. This may be reflected in the receipt of major grants and/or prestigious awards.
- The ability of the nominee to deliver a dynamic, engaging, and scholarly lecture to a general audience.
Questions/Information:
Karen Zentner Bacig 612.624.5082 – OR- Claire Walter-Marchetti 612.625.6039.
Campus Mail or In-Person Delivery of Nomination Materials:
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs/Women’s Faculty Cabinet
110 Morrill Hall
100 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Attn: Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Selection Committee
E-mailed Nominations:
Karen Zentner Bacig, Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, at kbacig@umn.edu.