LAS Academic Advising Award

This award recognizes and encourages quality advising of LAS undergraduates. The LAS Student Academic Affairs office surveys students about their academic advisors, then contacts departments with highly rated advisors and asks that they send in a nomination package. The department may, at its own discretion, nominate an advisor for this award as well. One award may be given each year. Departments are encouraged to submit one nomination.

Award

Recipient receives a $2,000 award and a commemorative plaque at the LAS Recognition of Teaching Excellence.

Eligibility

The eligibility requirements for this award and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising are now the same. Recipient must be employed in LAS at time of reception. Further, a faculty member or academic professional who receives a LAS College Award will not be eligible for a second college award during the next 10-year period, although such a person may be nominated again through this process for the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising during that 10-year period, if they remain eligible for that award. Graduate assistant advisors are not eligible for this award.

Criteria

1. Sustained excellence in undergraduate advising. 
2. Major impact on undergraduate students and their intellectual development through sustained academic advising relationships.

Nominations

The nomination criteria and procedures for this award and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising are one and the same. The criteria and procedures are included in the Provost's Guidelines on Awards for Excellence in Instruction, Advising, and Research. In addition to the campus procedures, all materials must be typed in 12 point, Times New Roman font, single-spaced.

The LAS Awards Committee will review and rank the applications received. A pdf of the nomination packet should be emailed to lasdean@illinois.edu. If needed, a paper copy can be sent by the deadline to: LAS AWARDS COMMITTEE, 2090 Lincoln Hall MC-448.

Deadlines for submission to the department and to the college correspond to those for the campus awards:

Date	Deadlines
Mid-November, 2024	Recommended deadline for nominations to departmental selection committee.
January 5, 2025, 5pm	Deadline for nominations from departments to the college.
February 1, 2025	Deadline for college nominations to the campus.