Please consider submitting a nomination if you know a member of the Indiana University community who deserves the pinnacle of recognition that the university can offer for excellence in research, creative activity, teaching, or service.
The nomination deadline for AY25-26 is now closed. AY26-27 nominations are tentatively due on October 8, 2026, at 5PM.
The University Honors and Awards office will schedule its next online information sessions in the future.
Explore the available awards and their requirements:
The nomination process involves multiple steps and people. For all awards, nominees are not able to nominate themselves. Instead, nominees must have their nomination submitted by someone else who serves as their nominator. Nominators and nominees are encouraged to start the nomination process many weeks or months ahead of the due date. The sections below outline the steps for nominators and nominees.
Nominators are responsible for submitting the nomination and often coordinate the preparation of the dossier. (In AY25-26, we began accepting self nominations for full-time faculty distinguished teaching awards. Please visit the distinguished teaching award nomination page for information to determine readiness to submit a nomination.) In most cases, nominators are vice provosts, vice chancellors, deans, or department chairs, but they are not required to have those roles. Nominators may have designees who work on their behalf to submit and coordinate the nomination.
Nominators are encouraged to take these steps:
In many cases, nominees work with their nominator to prepare the dossier submitted with the nomination. Sometimes an individual who would like to be a nominee asks another individual to serve as their nominator.
Nominees are encouraged to take these steps:
Dossiers comprise all the materials that the award selection committee reviews in order to recommend an awardee to the President. It is critical that the nominator ensure the dossier is well developed. Although each award has unique requirements for its dossier, in general dossiers are divided into three groups of materials:
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Questions: To review sample dossiers and for all other questions, please contact uha@iu.edu
