The L. H. Cullum Endowment Award

About the Award

The L. H. Cullum Endowment Award recognizes the excellence and contributions of full-time professional-track faculty to the University and is intended to support continuing faculty improvement.

Deadline

Nominations closed. This award will open for nominations during spring semester.

Number of Nominations

Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts	3 per CSU
Fine Arts, Geosciences, Education, Communication, Business, Law, Nursing, Pharmacy, Engineering	2 per CSU
Social Work, Architecture, Public Affairs, Civic Leadership	1 per CSU

Nominee Qualifications and Evaluation Criteria

Eligible faculty must

• Be a full-time mid-career professional-track faculty member who must
• Be in the instruction, clinical, lecturer or practice titles, and who must
• Hold an appointment at the associate or full professor rank or senior lecturer or Distinguished Senior Lecturer rank at the time of application
• Have served a minimum of three (3) full academic years as 100% FTE professional-track faculty member at UT Austin at time of application
• Hold a full-time professional-track faculty appointment in both fall and spring semesters of the award year
• Not concurrently hold another major endowment in the same academic year as the L.H. Cullum endowment
• Not hold a primary appointment in Dell Medical School

The faculty member must have demonstrated evidence of excellence in their UT Austin faculty work through any or all of the following contributions:

• Research, scholarship, creative endeavors, or
• Leadership of major curriculum redesign or significant course improvement, or
• Clinical training, or
• Strategic academic leadership. 

Nomination Materials Required

Faculty must be nominated for the endowment by their supervisor (chair, director or dean).

Supervisor (provided separately by supervisor):

• Nomination form and
• Narrative of support (up to 500 words maximum)

Nominee (provided separately by nominee):

• Nominee form,
• CV (4-page maximum), and
• Nominee statement (2-page maximum)

Award Amount

$4,000 salary supplement* and L.H. Cullum Fellow designation during the subsequent academic year
*amount may vary based on endowment income