Awards
Distinguished Faculty Governance Award
Faculty members who consistently place University-wide interests on the same level as their personal career and departmental interests represent a scarce resource that all faculty members treasure. Their concern with the general welfare protects and nourishes our individual welfare. The kinds of corporate activities these University citizens take on give us a secure sense of collective conscience. Faculty governance is the arena in which these citizens serve, and it is faculty government through the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs that recognize their accomplishments with this award.
The Distinguished Faculty Governance Award of $1,500 was established by SACUA in 1986 and is funded by the Alumni Association. The criterion for the award is distinguished service to faculty governance over several years with an emphasis on university-wide service
Current SACUA members are ineligible, as are those members from the immediate past year. All members of the University Senate (assistant, associate, and full professors, research scientists, and librarians who are Senate Members) are eligible.
Please send nomination materials to the facultysenateoffice@
- A nomination letter outlining the faculty members’ work, participation, and contributions for Central Faculty Governance. (Required)
- Nominee’s CV (Required)
- Additional supporting statements (optional)
Note: Nominations that are not selected will be eligible for three years.
If you have any questions about the award or the nomination process, please contact the Faculty Senate Office at 734-764-0303. Thank you for your participation.
Deborah Goldberg - 2019 Recipient
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita Margaret B. Davis Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
“Professor Goldberg has contributed magnificently to our university over the past 35 years as a world-class, award-winning ecologist, as a visionary educator, and as the trail-blazing founding chair of our department,” wrote Diarmaid Ó Foighil in his letter of nomination.
Previous Distinguished Faculty Governance Award Recipients
2018 — Bruce Maxim, UM Dearborn, College of Engineering and Computer Science
2017 — Scott Masten, Ross School of Business
2016 — Rich Friedman, Law School
2015 — Karen Staller, School of Social Work
2014 — Keith Riles, LSA Physics
2013 — Bruno Giordani, LSA Psychology
2012 — Michael Thouless, Engineering
2011 — David Potter, Classical Studies, LSA
2011 — Robert Axelrod, Public Policy and LSA-Political Science
2010 — Bruce Frier, Law & LSA
2010 — Stanley Berent, Medicine
2008 — Semyon Meerkov, Engineering
2007 — Fred Askari, Medicine
2007 — George Brewer, Medicine
2006 — William D. Ensminger, Medicine
2005 — Cynthia Luz Marcelo, Medicine
2004 — Louis G. D’Alecy, Medicine
2004 — William W. Schultz, Engineering
2003 — Charles B. Smith, Medicine
2002 — Alphonse R. Burdi, Medicine
2001 — Jackie Lawson, UM-Dearborn
2000 — Thomas Dunn, Chemistry, LSA (Emeritus)
1999 — John T. Lehman, Biology, LSA
1999 — Sheila Feld, Social Work
1998 — Thomas E. Moore, Biology, LSA
1997 — Beth Glover Reed, Social Work
1996 — Theodore J. St. Antoine, Law
1995 — Gayle D. Ness, Sociology, LSA
1994 — Peggie J. Hollingsworth, Emeritus
1993 — Donald R. Brown, Psychology, LSA
1992 — Claude A. Eggertsen, Education (Emeritus)
1991 — Daniel E. Moerman, Anthropology, UM-Dearborn
1990 — Wilbert J. McKeachie, Psychology, LSA
1990 — William C. Stebbins, Medicine
1989 — Donald R. Deskins, Jr., Sociology, LSA
1988 — Cecil Nesbitt, Mathematics, LSA
1987 — Ralph A. Loomis, English, LSA
1986 — Janice B. Lindberg, Nursing
1986 — Wilfred Kaplan, Mathematics, LSA