Dear Faculty Colleagues:
Faculty Excellence offers new resources to help you identify and seek external honorific awards that can energize your career.
Our new external honorific awards website includes a database for identifying awards, past UCF external award winners, and tips for pursuing prestigious and highly prestigious honors. I am also pleased to introduce another valuable resource to support your professional development.
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Charlenne Valere is our new director of academic programs at Faculty Excellence. Much of her work will focus on helping faculty and university leaders learn about suitable award opportunities and how to apply for them. Charlenne can answer questions, guide you on the next steps, and help you navigate the submission process.
At Faculty Excellence, we encourage faculty members at any career stage to explore external honorific awards, and we are delighted when they achieve these distinctions. The process starts with knowing the awards that exist, and these new resources can make a difference.
UCF faculty members are remarkable scholars, teachers, and researchers. We look forward to celebrating more awards that help others recognize it, too.