Purpose
The UAMS College of Health Professions Excellence in Performance Award is to recognize the staff member whose significant contributions through individual and team effort are instrumental in achieving the UAMS mission, and who best exemplifies the core values of integrity, respect, diversity, teamwork, creativity and excellence.
Core Values
- Integrity — We foster, encourage and expect honesty, accountability and transparency in pursuit of the highest ethical and professional standards in all that we do. We take responsibility for our performance, and will communicate our critical decisions to our employees, patients, students and stakeholders.
- Respect — We embrace a culture of professionalism with respect for the dignity of all persons, honoring the unique contributions provided by a diversity of perspectives and cultures.
- Diversity — We are committed to the importance of the diversity of UAMS leadership, faculty, staff and students in order to enhance the education of our students, reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in our state, and provide an environment in which all employees and views are welcomed.
- Teamwork — We seek to create interdisciplinary, synergistic and collegial relationships characterized by honesty, collaboration, inclusiveness and flexibility.
- Creativity — We encourage and support innovation, imagination, ingenuity, resourcefulness and vision.
- Excellence — We strive to achieve, through continuous improvement and adherence to institutional policies and best practices, the highest quality and standards in all our endeavors.
The recipients of these awards receive an individual plaque, and their names are added to a perpetual plaque of UAMS College of Health Professions Excellence in Performance Award winners located in an appropriate place in the college. Also included is a cash award of $500 (the amount may vary depending on available resources).
Eligibility
Nominees must be staff members of the UAMS College of Health Professions. Activities related to this award must have been performed while an employee of the college.
Procedure
Candidates may be nominated by students, staff, alumni, or faculty members. The nomination should be in the form of a 300-word essay that addresses the impact the employee had made in the college using the core values of integrity, respect, diversity, teamwork, creativity and excellence.
Recipients of an award are not eligible for the same award within a two-year period (e.g., recipients of the 2021 award will be eligible for the same award in 2023).
Nominations will be forwarded to the associate dean for administrative affairs of the UAMS College of Health Professions. The associate dean will call a meeting of the Staff Recognition Development Committee to review applications and make a recommendation to the dean of the UAMS College of Health Professions.
Staff Recognition Development Committee
The Staff Recognition Development Committee will be composed of the following:
- The current recipient of the UAMS College of Health Professions faculty Excellence in Service Award will chair the committee
- A representative from Organizational Development in the UAMS Division of People and Culture
- A UAMS College of Health Professions department chair selected by the College of Health Professions Executive Committee
- A currently enrolled student (selected by the UAMS College of Health Professions Student Council)
- Immediate past recipients of the Excellence in Customer Service Award and the Excellence in Performance Award
A Staff Recognition Development Committee member must recuse themselves from the proceedings if they have, or appear to have, a conflict of interest in the selection process.
Calendar
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| First Friday in January | The associate dean for administrative affairs distributes the UAMS College of Health Professions Excellence in Performance Award criteria and procedures to College of Health Professions department chairs and administrative staff. An announcement seeking nominations for the Excellence in Performance Award is distributed. |
| First Friday in February | The associate dean for administrative affairs sends reminders to the department chairs and administrative staff about the nomination deadline. |
| Second Friday in March | Nomination Deadline — Nomination forms must be received by the associate dean for administrative affairs by this date. Review by the Staff Recognition Development Committee begins. |
| First Friday in April | Selection Deadline — The Staff Recognition Development Committee selects the UAMS College of Health Professions Excellence in Performance Award recipient and sends the committee’s recommendation to the dean. |
| Spring Faculty and Staff Meeting | Excellence in Performance Award recipient recognized at an awards ceremony |