The President's Departmental/Team Excellence Award recognizes departments, teams, or groups of employees whose achievements advance or support the university’s initiatives to transform the Tulane experience. Recipients will receive a one-time cash award and will be honored by President Fitts and the university for their exceptional efforts. Use the links below for award eligibility, criteria, and to access the nomination form.
For more information, please contact Will Ferbos, Vice President for University Relations and Deputy Chief of Staff, at ferbos@tulane.edu.
- All part-time and full-time staff, administrators, faculty, and student employees are eligible for nomination of this award.
- Groups can be departmental, cross-departmental, interdisciplinary, committee or project team, etc.
- Employees who received the award in the previous award cycle are not eligible for this year's award (i.e., if you won in 2023, you are not eligible in 2024).
Works effectively as part of a department, team, or group to advance or support the university’s initiatives to transform the Tulane experience. Learn more about each initiative below.
- Enhancing the Student Experience – A number of campus initiatives are transforming the ways students live, learn, and build community.
- Honoring and Advancing Diversity – Through the Strategy for Tomorrow, we are building an environment of equity, diversity, compassion, respect, and opportunity.
- Promoting Pioneering Research – President Fitts believes working across disciplines to pursue groundbreaking discoveries has the most significant global impact.
- Ensuring Financial Stability – Tulane has achieved positive operating margins and shattered fundraising records year after year.
1. All staff, administrators, faculty, students, and affiliates of Tulane are welcome to submit nominations during the annual call for nominations by following these instructions:
- Groups can nominate themselves.
- The nomination form should be thoroughly completed.
- At least one letter of support should be included with specific examples of how the nominated group’s efforts achieved, advanced, or supported one of the goals listed above. Include the names of all group members.
- Both the completed nomination form and letter(s) of support should be emailed to Will Ferbos, Vice President for University Relations and Deputy Chief of Staff, at ferbos@tulane.edu by close of business Friday, May 10, 2024.
2. Nominations are reviewed by the Office of Human Resources & Institutional Equity to verify that eligibility requirements have been met.
3. The Awards Committee reviews nominations and submits recommendations to the senior administration of the University for final approval.
4. Recipients are announced.
- Individual recipients of a group receive the monetary award via direct deposit the day following the announcement.
- If recipients are a part of a university department, the head of the department will be contacted by the Office of Human Resources & Institutional Equity after the announcement is made to arrange for disbursement of the monetary award(s).
