Performance, Creative Production or Creative Work
Questions? Email facultyawards@utsa.edu.
ONE AWARD FOR EITHER TENURED/TENURE-TRACK/FIXED-TERM TRACK FACULTY
Purpose of Award
This award is to recognize, encourage and reward those individuals whose performance, creative production, or other related scholarly achievement in arts or design has manifested exceptional excellence and merit. This award is also meant to reward faculty whose artistic and/or design achievement has directly or indirectly benefited students, the San Antonio community (or other communities), and/or has made a significant contribution to the faculty member’s discipline.
Eligibility
Faculty nominated must have taught at least four consecutive long semesters (Fall-Spring) at UTSA. The awards are based on performance for the calendar year of the award. Priority will be given to candidates who have not previously won the award. Previous recipients of the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Performance, Creative Production or Creative Works will be eligible for nomination after seven years.
Criteria
The selection committee will consider the following criteria in selecting winners:
- The degree to which the artistic/design achievement is exceptionally meritorious
- The degree to which the artistic/design achievement has benefitted UTSA students, the San Antonio community (or other communities) and/or has made a significant contribution to the faculty member’s discipline.
Nomination Materials
A selection committee composed of faculty will review nomination packets. The nomination packet for this award will consist of only the following, assembled into a single PDF file in the order indicated:
- Complete award nomination form
- Recent letter of support/nomination from a peer faculty colleague, department chair, or a college leader.
- Self-statement by nominee (max. 2 pages) that:
- Describes the specific artistic /design activity for which the faculty member is being nominated
- Explains the impact of the artistic/design activity on UTSA students, the community (San Antonio or others) and/or the nominee’s discipline
- CV of nominee
Optional:
- A letter of support from a community member familiar with the faculty member’s contributions to the San Antonio (or other) community.
No additional materials should be submitted.
Each dean’s office should upload completed nomination packets by the deadline.
Previous recipients of the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Performance, Creative Production, or Other Scholarly Achievement are ineligible for nomination for this award.
Each college may submit a maximum number of three nominees (1 Tenured, 1 Tenure-Track, 1 Fixed-Term Track).
SEE TABLE BELOW
| College | Maximum Number of Nominees |
|---|---|
| CEID | 3 |
| ACOB | 3 |
| COEHD | 3 |
| COLFA | 3 |
| COS | 3 |
| HCaP | 3 |
| University College | 3 |
| Honors College | 3 |
Past Recipients
2023
Marco Cervantes, Education and Human Development
2022
Tracy Cowden, Liberal and Fine Arts
2021
Sarah Lasley, Liberal and Fine Arts
2019
Rita Linard, Liberal and Fine Arts
2018
Taeg Nishimoto, Architecture, Construction and Planning
2017
Ethan Wickman, Liberal and Fine Arts
2016
Ben V. Olguín, Liberal and Fine Arts
2015
Kasandra Keeling, Liberal and Fine Arts
2014
Bonnie Lyons, Liberal and Fine Arts
2013
Matthew Dunne, Liberal and Fine Arts
2012
Jeanne Reesman, Liberal and Fine Arts
2011
David Heuser, Liberal and Fine Arts
2010
Wendy Barker, Liberal and Fine Arts
2009
John Silantien, Liberal and Fine Arts
2008
Vincent Canizaro, Architecture
2007
Mahesh Senagala, Architecture
2006
William McCrary, Liberal and Fine Arts
2005
Ken D. Little, Liberal and Fine Arts
2004
Stephen Reynolds, Liberal and Fine Arts
2003
Ken D. Little, Liberal and Fine Arts
2002
Neil Maurer, Liberal and Fine Arts
2001
Charles Field, Liberal and Fine Arts
1999
Ken D. Little, Fine Arts and Humanities
1998
Ronald Binks, Fine Arts and Humanities
1997
Wendy Barker, Fine Arts and Humanities
1996
Constance Lowe, Fine Arts and Humanities
1995
Valeri Grokhovski, Fine Arts and Humanities
1994
Daniel Gelo, Social and Behavioral Sciences
1993
Stephen Reynolds, Fine Arts and Humanities
1992
John Silantien, Fine Arts and Humanities
1991
Kent Rush, Fine Arts and Humanities
1990
Dennis Olsen, Fine Arts and Humanities
