Gold Shield

Members of the UCLA Academic Senate

Dear Colleagues:

We enthusiastically invite your nominations for the Gold Shield Faculty Prize, an unrestricted $30,000 cash prize that recognizes and rewards mid-career UCLA faculty members who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishments in undergraduate teaching and in research or creative activity, as well as service within the University. The Prize is given in two annual installments. The 2020 winner will be from north campus and will be chosen from one of the following areas: Arts and Architecture, Humanities, Social Sciences, Music and Theater, Film and Television.

The recipient of the award must be an exceptional mid-career full professor who has a distinguished record of undergraduate teaching with preference given to faculty who have held a doctoral degree for at least 10 years. Gold Shield’s additional criteria include "extraordinary promise and accomplishment in research or creative activity; an outstanding record in teaching, especially of undergraduates; and an acceptable level of service to the University."

The nomination period for the Gold Shield Faculty Prize opened on Monday, November 11, 2019. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, February 14, 2020, at 5 p.m.

Gold Shield Faculty Prize information, including the purpose, history of the prize, eligibility, criteria, and instructions for nominations, are available on the Academic Senate website. The Gold Shield Faculty Prize brochure (PDF), which delineates the entry instructions, criteria and selection process, can be viewed online and is separately attached.

For further information, please contact Annie Speights, Assistant to the Gold Shield Faculty Prize Committee, in the Academic Senate office at:
aspeights@senate.ucla.edu.

You may also contact Marla Berns, Gold Shield Faculty Prize Chair, by email at:
berns@arts.ucla.edu.

Cordially,

Michael Meranze

Chair

UCLA Academic Senate

Marla Berns

Chair

Gold Shield Faculty Prize Committee