CIC Innovation Excellence Award Nomination

The College of Information and Communications recognizes a staff member who demonstrates excellence in innovation that has had a meaningful and significant impact on a process, program, or initiative within the college and/or schools.This individual has implemented or attempted a new system or approach in the past 12 months.

Who can Nominate:

Nominations will be solicited from all faculty, staff, CIC staff affiliates, administrators, adjuncts and temporary employees.
Self-nomination is allowed.

Eligible Employees:

To be eligible for consideration, an employee must meet the following criteria:

Must be an FTE staff member affiliated with the CIC (includes development and advising staff).
The nominee must have at least one year of continuous service (this includes those who have transitioned into a different role) within the CIC as of the date of nomination.
The nominee may not have received the award within the past 24 months.
The nominee must be in good standing as evidenced by a performance evaluation rating of Successful or higher.
No disciplinary action in the past twelve (12) months.

The CIC Innovation Excellence Award winner will receive the following:

Certificate,
$500.00 monetary award (subject to tax deductions),
Name displayed on CIC digital signage, and
Announced on the webpage, social media and “CIC This Week” email.

Nominator's Name*

First NameLast Name

Nominator's Email*

example@example.com

Nominator's Role*

Staff / CIC Staff AffiliateFacultyAdjunct Faculty / Temporary Employee

Nominee's Name*

First NameLast Name

Nominee's Email*

example@example.com

Nominee's Department*

College of Information and CommunicationsSchool of Information ScienceSchool of Journalism and Mass Communications

Nominee has demonstrated a combination of the following (select all that apply):*

Consistently performs job responsibilities at a level above and beyond normal expectations and/or demonstrating an innovative approach to their job.Demonstrative contributions, which result in more efficient and cost-effective operations.Demonstrative evidence of taking initiative to learn and excel at new methods and techniques.Demonstrative evidence of creating and implementing new procedures or processes.A significant contribution to advance inclusive excellence.Takes extraordinary ownership of new challenges and techniques.Seeks ways to continuously improve satisfaction and remove barriers when providing services to members of the college/university community.

Please, include a summary, not to exceed 500 words, clearly describing the overview of the innovation, idea and/or process, objective and significance of the innovation and how the innovation was implemented:*

Note: Since the text cannot be saved until you submit the entire nomination form, it is strongly recommended that you complete your responses in Microsoft Word, first, and then copy/paste the text into this form. Save your work often in Word.

The Innovation has demonstrated a positive impact (provide example):*