About the Award

The UPEI Faculty Association Merit Award for Outstanding Service recognizes outstanding (i) participation, (ii) leadership (formal or informal), and (iii) achievement in this pillar of academic life. For purposes of this award:

• 1) Service refers principally to contributions to the University’s governance and functioning at the level of the Department, School, Faculty, University, or Faculty Association, and also includes outreach beyond the university;
• 2) Service does not refer to professional service contributions which are part of regular duties;
• 3) Service which has been remunerated and service for which course release has been provided will not be weighted as heavily as service which has not been similarly acknowledged.

Eligibility

Any member of the Faculty Association is eligible for nomination, excepting current members of the Faculty Association Executive Committee.

2022-2023 Winners

Guidelines and Nomination Forms

Nomination Guidelines [PDF]

Nominations are now being accepted. The Deadline for nominations has been pushed until Wednesday, January 31, 2024. All supporting documents are due Monday, March 4th, 2024.

Subcommittee Members

Role	Name	Department & Contact	Term
Chair	Sundeep Singh	Engineering [email protected] 902-566-0489	May 11, 2023 – May 10, 2024
Member	Kuljeet Grewal	Engineering [email protected]	May 11, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Member	MacKenzie Johnson	Library [email protected] 902-620-5290	May 11, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Member	Lara Cusack	AVC [email protected]	May 11, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Member	Christopher Power	Mathematical and Computational Sciences [email protected] 902-566-0328	May 11, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Member	Xiao Chen	Business [email protected] 902-566-6036	May 11, 2021- May 10, 2022