The Faculty Council Distinguished Service Award recognizes the service of faculty to the University of Colorado. It is designed to recognize contributions through participation in faculty governance, particularly through activities in Faculty Council and its committee structures.
The winners of this award receive a freestanding plaque honoring their contributions to the University. All persons nominated for this award will be recognized in a letter sent from the Faculty Council chair to appropriate University administrators that acknowledges their specific contributions to faculty service during the current academic year. Criteria for decisions will include the significance of the activities undertaken by the nominee in addition to the quantity and quality of the contributions to various service activities.
Eligibility
All members of the Faculty Council and of Faculty Council or Faculty Senate standing and special committees are eligible and comprise the primary source of potential nominees for this award. From time to time, however, a faculty member who is not a member of system-level faculty governance but who has had significant impact system-wide can be considered for this award. Emphasis should be on system-wide contributions to faculty well-being.
In order to ensure that all possible recipients are considered each year, serving or outgoing Faculty Council chairs are ineligible for the award until the year following their service as Faculty Council chair.
Previous Winners
| YEAR | RECIPIENT |
|---|---|
| 2003 | R L Widmann, CU Boulder, English |
| 2004 | Mark Malone, UCCS, Education |
| 2005 | John C. Miller, UCCS, Languages and Cultures |
| 2006 | Richard F. Bakemeier, CU Anschutz, School of Medicine |
| 2007 | Pamela Walker Laird, CU Denver, History Department |
| 2008 | Rodney Muth, CU Denver, Education & Human Development |
| 2008 | Judith Igoe, CU Denver, School of Nursing |
| 2009 | Nancy Ciccone, CU Denver, English |
| 2009 | Weldon Lodwick, CU Denver, Math |
| 2010 | Roxanne Byrne, CU Denver, Math |
| 2011 | John McDowell, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Dental Medicine |
| 2012 | Melinda Piket-May, CU Boulder, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences |
| 2012 | Karen Jonscher, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine |
| 2013 | Tom Napierkowski, UCCS, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences |
| 2014 | Pam Laird, CU Denver, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| 2015 | Margaret Jobe, CU Boulder, Libraries |
| 2016 | Mark Malone, UCCS, College of Education, Department of Teaching & Learning |
| 2017 | Joanne Addison, CU Denver, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English |
| 2018 | David Thompson, CU Anschutz, School of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy |
| 2019 | Tamara Terzian, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Dermatology Department & Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine |
| 2020 | Vicki Grove, CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences, Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| 2021 | Lawrence Cunningham, CU Denver, Business School, Marketing |
| 2023 | Joanne Addison, CU Denver, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English |
| 2025 | Cindy O'Bryant, CU Anschutz, School of Pharmacy |
| 2025 | Vicki Grove, CU Boulder, College of Arts and Sciences |