Faculty excellence is recognized and rewarded in a variety of ways at IUPUI. Recognition through campus and university honors and awards can add distinction to faculty members’ professional development as well as increase awareness of their teaching, research and scholarship, and engagement and service activities across IUPUI and Indiana University. Faculty at IUPUI have numerous opportunities for recognition, many of which include financial awards.
Award Amount: Recipients receive a cash award of $1,000.
Eligibility: All full- and part-time faculty and academic staff members, including all advisors, mentors, and counselors at the PAC, PAO, PAE, and PAL employee classification.
Deadline: Nominations for AY 2022-2023 award cycle are closed. Nominations for the AY 2023-2024 will open in October.
Award Amount: Recipients receive a base salary increase of $3,000.
Eligiblity: Full-time faculty members in any classification for whom professional service and teaching, research, or service in the Central Indiana community is an expectation and who have taught at IUPUI for at least five years, including at least one term in the year immediately preceding the nomination.
Deadline: Nominations for AY 2022-2023 award cycle are closed. Nominations for the AY 2023-2024 will open in October.
Award Amount: A $3,000 award will be given to one full-time faculty member which will be added to their base salary. A $2,000 cash award will be given to one part-time faculty member.
Eligibility: Any full-time faculty member teaching at IUPUI for at least three years is eligibile for the award. Any part-time faculty member teaching in the award cycle is eligible to be nominated for the part-time award.
Deadline: Nominations for AY 2022-2023 award cycle are closed. Nominations for the AY 2023-2024 will open in October.
Award Amount: Recipients receive a cash award of $2,500.
Eligibility: See web page for general eligibility information. Each academic unit is responsible for setting criteria and developing a selection process for the TTA within the general guidelines.
Information will be sent to deans each year for the nomination process.
Each unit is assigned a proportionate number of the total campus awards and will select faculty to receive awards within the unit.
Award Amount: Recipients receive a cash award of $1,000.
Eligibility: All full- and part-time faculty and academic staff members, including all advisors, mentors, and counselors at the PAC, PAO, PAE, and PAL employee classification.
Deadline: Nominations for AY 2022-2023 award cycle are closed. Nominations for the AY 2023-2024 will open in October.
Notification of nomination timeline and process is sent annually to deans.
(If you are part of the nomination process of Chancellor's Scholars in your school and would like to be notified when information is sent to deans, please email the Office of Academic Affairs at ude[dot]iupui[at]aao).
Eligibilty: Any community organization that has partnered with IUPUI faculty, staff, student, or campus units to create a positive difference in the community through teaching (e.g., service learning, clinical, internship), research, or professional service may be nominated for this award. Nominees must have engaged in a meaningful and sustained program of collaboration with one or more campus units that has resulted in deepening student learning, advancing faculty/staff work, and improving community outcomes.
Deadline: Nominations for AY 2022-2023 award cycle are closed. Nominations for the AY 2023-2024 will open in October.
The Gerald L. Bepko Outstanding Administrator Award is given to administrators who have contributed significantly to the IUPUI campus. The award is given as candidates are identified by the Indianapolis Faculty Council Executive Committee.
Indiana University Awards
Indiana University has a history of achievement. Since 1820, the university has been home to world-renowned researchers, scholars, musicians, professors, and students. Each year, outstanding faculty members from Indiana University campuses are honored with teaching awards and distinguished professorships at the Celebration of Distinguished Teaching at the Bloomington campus. The excellence of Indiana University’s award winners and the corresponding collection of awards over the past 194 years has been catalogued and can be reviewed at Traditions of Excellence.
