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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2021 PIPER PROFESSOR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">September 9, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A&M-Commerce Administration has received the attached request for nominations for “Piper Professors of 2021.” The University can nominate only one faculty member each year for the
award. The Faculty Senate Awards committee will manage the collection and review of applications for faculty members who wish to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Faculty Senate awards committee will make a recommendation to the full Senate regarding which application should go forward from the University. The full Senate will then make
a recommendation to Provost Humphreys. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Each application will be forwarded to the Provost’s office for consideration. The Provost will then make a recommendation to the President of the University, who will
then make the University’s recommendation to the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The deadline for submission to the Piper Foundation is November 13, 2020. The President’s Office has requested nomination material by November 6, 2020. Application material should be submitted
to the Faculty Senate awards committee by October 19, 2020. Submit your completed application to
</span><a href="mailto:Faculty.Awards@tamuc.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Faculty.Awards@tamuc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> on or before the October 19, 2020 deadline.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you know of a faculty member who should apply, please encourage that individual to do so. Attached is the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation letter addressed to President Rudin. Nominees must
complete the Piper Professor Nomination Form (see attachment) and electronically submit an application packet addressing each of the following items, which encompass the criteria used to make the selection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Describe current duties (i.e., teaching, administrative duties, if any, thesis or dissertation directing) and approximate number of hours devoted to it<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Identify student organizations sponsored
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Identify membership in honor and professional societies, and identify special awards/grants received<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Detail description of service to the community<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Describe effective teaching practices
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">List publications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Include the purpose of teaching statement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Present highlights of your teaching career<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Gracie Brownell (Assistant Professor, Social Work) is chair of the Faculty Senate awards committee. Please direct questions regarding the application process to Dr. Brownell:
</span><a href="mailto:Gracie.Brownell@tamuc.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gracie.Brownell@tamuc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Kunstler Script";color:black">Julia Ballenger
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Julia Ballenger, Ph.D., President of Faculty Senate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#00386C">Julia Ballenger, Ph.D., <i> (she, her, hers)<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#00386C">Professor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#00386C">Faculty Senate President<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#00386C">Co-Editor: Research on Women and Education, Information Age Series Book,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#00386C">Co-Editor: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal (the only open-access journal related to women in leadership, founded in 1996)
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.advancingwomen.com&d=DwMFAg&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=ipRgm7MFqxEwm4jXxXA7TfceI2KGyDX4I4OYfUR5x68&m=I04cGyVSDhKG87ubESAEe0h9xx-9_czLUlnSi8bQe8c&s=Qzj-mbf2vQKhvXdUWGXc-WpzUI2AWc54ASGd3_aZ9z8&e=">www.advancingwomen.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#00386C">Assistant Editor and Reviewer: The International Journal of Organizational Innovation,
<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="../../../../Documents/1%2028%2019%20Aaliyah%20Miranda%20Chapter%204%20and%20outline">https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Girls-and-Women-of-Color-In-STEM-Navigating-the-Double-Bind</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.infoagepub.com_products_Girls-2Dand-2DWomen-2Dof-2DColor-2DIn-2DSTEM-2DJourneys-2Din-2DHigher-2DEducation&d=DwMFAg&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=MTLFa1wDwoI5uP4uUViBIVBLnukwNtormlmuJEMNmiI&m=A5UVrH7VH_vkPlkxW5jI6LRSM2rQalzRM-292wHtYP0&s=YSstWmRWISUC5PIuGvHzLPOTAqb-vLfjEPPMLgN9_w4&e=">https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Girls-and-Women-of-Color-In-STEM-Journeys-in-Higher-Education</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#333333">“Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year; it is the struggle of a lifetime.” Congressman John Lewis</span><span style="color:#00386C"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#00386C">PDK Distinguished Educator, 2019</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#00386C"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352"><a href="https://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/educationHumanServices/departments/educationalLeadership/"><span style="color:#0088CE">Educational Leadership</span></a> | Frank Young Education
North (EDN), Office #110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352;text-transform:uppercase">P: 936.554.9300</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352">Mail:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352"> P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429-3011</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352">Ship:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F5352"> 2600 S Neal Street, Commerce, TX 75428</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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