The Chancellor’s Professorship honors a full professor or librarian with highly meritorious performance, extensive accomplishment, and leadership in all areas of academic work, including teaching, research, and campus service. The title acknowledges that the breadth and depth of those contributions are vital to the overall success of campus mission, goals, and advancement.
Chancellor’s Professors are faculty who contribute in concrete, demonstrable ways to the development of IU South Bend as an academic community of exceptional quality and integrity, as well as to their discipline through the creation and application of knowledge. Through their scholarship, leadership, and service to their department, school or college, and campus, successful nominees will have demonstrated a record of contributions to the mission and vision of IU South Bend. There should be clear evidence of the candidate’s strengths that demonstrates a consistently excellent performance of benefit to the University over time. Faculty with distinguished records reflecting interdisciplinary accomplishments or work integrating teaching, scholarship, and service are encouraged as well.
Full professor
10 years at time of nomination
4 years at time of nomination
Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, Deans
A record of highly meritorious performance in all areas of faculty work (teaching, research or creative activity, and service), or librarian work (performance, research or creative activity, and service) demonstrated throughout one’s career.
$5,000 added to base pay in year of initial appointment as Chancellor’s Professor
The Chancellor’s Professor will carry the title in perpetuity
During the initial year of appointment, the awardee will undertake a project that advances the mission of the campus. The project will be determined in consultation with the Chancellor. The awardee will receive one three-credit course release each semester (or something comparable if a librarian) for the academic year in which she/he is initially appointed as a Chancellor’s Professor to complete the project.
Any tenured faculty member may nominate a full professor colleague to be considered for the Chancellor’s Professorship. No self-nominations will be considered.
The nominator is responsible for compiling a dossier, which should include:
The nominator will assemble and submit the dossier in electronic form to Shelby Ping, Academic Affairs Administrative Assistant (slping@iu.edu) by the last business day of February.
Incomplete dossiers will not be forwarded to the Selection Committee.
The Selection Committee will forward all candidate names, dossiers, and its recommendation to the Chancellor. The Chancellor will take the Selection Committee’s recommendation as advisory to their own evaluation. Final selection of the Chancellor’s Professor rests with the Chancellor.
