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Jefferis Chair.

Eligibility

1. Graduate Member status

a. Would provide acknowledged base of publication in past.
b. Would provide incentive for non-members to achieve that status.

2. For the three-year period ending with the year of award: publication of scholarly and/or creative work in peer-reviewed journals, either in print or on-line; presentations at professional conferences; publication of scholarly and/or creative books, book chapters, or monographs by presses that utilize a peer review process.

a. Publications with regional circulations included, but definitely subordinate to national or international publication.

b. Work performed, completed, or published during this 3-year period is to be considered most highly. However, department members may ask that earlier work not previously used to win the Jefferis Chair also be considered.

c. Conference presentations can be considered as part of the overall record of professional performance but are definitely subordinate to publications.

Procedure for Determining Recipient

1. Early in the spring semester at the end of one Jefferis Chair term, eligible candidates submit dossiers for departmental review. Dossiers should include such materials as copies of acceptance letters, published work, conference programs, representative presentation materials, and published reviews of and citations of the applicant's publications.

2. Members of the Department's Committee of the Whole examine dossiers for overall quality of scholarship and/or creative work.

3. Department's Committee of the Whole convenes to discuss dossiers.

4. Decision by written ballot of all voting members of the English Department.

5. Recommendation is made to department chairperson.

6. Award confirmed by department chairperson, dean, etc., to be effective the beginning of the next academic year.

Terms of Award

1. Receipt of stipend for Jefferis Chair of English.

2. Such publicity/honors as the UN System affords.

3. Award automatically terminates at the end of the third academic year.

4. No individual holds award for consecutive three-year terms.

(approved 10/4/02; revised 12/5/03; revised 4/20/05)