Each year, Administrative Senate recognizes three administrators who have made significant contributions to the Ohio University community by granting them the Outstanding Administrator Award. Each recipient is honored at an awards ceremony, receives a certificate of recognition, has their name inscribed upon a plaque in Chubb Hall and receives $1,000.

Eligible nominees have to meet all of these minimum criteria:

• At least five years of consecutive service as a full- or part-time administrator at Ohio University, and currently serving as a full- or part-time administrator
  
  
  
  
• Administrative responsibility at any level (professional responsibility)
  
  
  
• A nine- to 12-month contract spending 50 percent or more time in administrative duties
  
  
  
• The president, vice president, executive vice president and provost, vice and associate provosts, secretary and treasurer to the Board of Trustees, deans and those eligible for Faculty Senate are not eligible for this award
  
  

Nomination forms are available on the Administrative Senate Web site at www.adminsenate.ohio.edu/outstanding.htm.

Forms can be submitted via e-mail to Janelle Baney, baney@ohio.edu, or Andrew Stuart, stuarta@ohio.edu, or via campus mail to 335 Stocker Engineering Center.

Questions about nominations can be directed to Baney. The awards presentation will be held from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, in the Baker University Center Ballroom.

-- From staff reports