Overview

CAMPOS Faculty Scholars- Nominations Welcome!

CAMPOS Faculty Scholars are exceptional scientists in a STEM discipline. They are selected for their transformative thinking, unique perspectives, interdisciplinary approaches, and leadership potential to impact their STEM discipline in profound and enduring ways. Their discoveries, innovations, and technological breakthroughs will contribute to the public good, locally, nationally, and globally. A CAMPOS Faculty Scholar is a role model for future scientists and scholars who share their vision of diversity and inclusion, as key components of the Academy in the 21st Century.

How can CAMPOS Faculty Scholars be nominated and appointed?

CAMPOS is accepts nominations for CAMPOS Faculty Scholars throughout the academic year with all information due to the review committee by May 15th. Nominations are reviewed at the close of spring quarter and awards are usually made in early July. Search Committee Chairs and/or Department Chairs may nominate candidates that have been selected to interview for a UC Davis STEM Academic Senate faculty position within the current recruitment cycle/academic year if they meet one or more of the review criteria, as described in the CAMPOS Faculty Scholar nomination form.

  1. To nominate the candidates, Search Committee Chairs and/or Department Chairs must submit a CAMPOS Faculty Scholar nomination package to camposscholars@ucdavis.edu. The nomination package includes:
  • The CAMPOS Faculty Scholar nomination form
  • A pdf of the faculty candidate’s dossier (CV, cover letter, statement of research, statement of teaching, publications, teaching interests, transcripts, references)
  • A letter summarizing any additional salient professional experiences
  • The faculty position announcement
  1. Promising candidates will be forwarded by the CAMPOS Review Committee to the Vice Provost-Academic Affairs, for final decision of selection of CAMPOS Scholars.
  2. The CAMPOS Faculty Scholar Award is contingent on the candidate’s acceptance of a faculty position, at UC Davis.

What does a CAMPOS Faculty Scholar receive?

  1. Academic support to hiring deans may include partial salary off-set.
  2. Academic support to the awarded new faculty member may include a summer GSR, travel awards and/or contributions toward participation in the NCFDD Faculty Success Program (Note: these supports were available during the grant award, but are not guaranteed in 2017-2018 and beyond.  Similar future support will depend on available funding through CAMPOS, as it is sustained within the UC Davis Office of Institutional Diversity)
  3. Professional development opportunities (e.g. Leadership Institutes, grant-writing workshops, speaking invitations, one-on-one mentoring, etc.) through the CAMPOS community
  4. LAUNCH Committee structured mentoring during the ~first year on campus
  • Supports early professional integration and development of CAMPOS Faculty Scholars as they begin their careers at UC Davis. The committees typically meet once per quarter in person or by teleconference.  Ideally, meetings will begin 2-3 months before new faculty arrival on campus.  In practice, meetings typically commence after the start date. 
  • LAUNCH committees include:
    • A senior faculty member in the new faculty member’s department with related research interests
    • Department Chair
    • Senior faculty member from outside the department, in a field related to that of the CAMPOS Faculty Scholar
    • Convener (The ADVANCE program coordinator will serve this role for CAMPOS through August 2018.)   

5. Networking

Opportunity to meet UCD women in science and STEM Scholars at the periodic ADVANCE CAMPOS Cafecitos (coffee breaks)