3000-3-6President's Award For Excellence
Responsible Executive:
President
Director, Human Resources
Issue Date:
April 26, 2007
Supersedes Date:
May 20, 2008
Last Revision:
May 09, 2019
Upon request, the college will provide a copy of this policy in an alternate format.
Policy
- The President’s Award for Excellence recognizes a Lambton College employee who has made an outstanding contribution to student and community success, integral to achieving the strategic mission and vision of the College.
Eligibility
- All Lambton College employees are eligible for consideration for the Award.
Criteria for Eligibility
- The recognition of the College employee under consideration must relate to outstanding
contributions to the College or to extracurricular College-related contributions.
- The recognition must relate to a sustained contribution that demonstrates a meeting of the
following criteria:
- innovation or enhancement of the College, or
- the provision of exceptional service to the College community, or
- the enrichment of College life or College effectiveness, or
- enhancement of community understanding or representation of the College, or
- significant contribution to the College reputation.
- Candidates must have been employed by Lambton College for a minimum of three years.
- Members of the Lambton College Senior Leadership Team (SLT) will be ineligible to receive the President’s Award for Excellence while holding office.
Recognition
- The President will present the award at the Employee Recognition event.
- The recipient will be presented with an individual plaque. The recipient’s name will also be inscribed on a plaque that will be permanently displayed in the College.
- A President’s Award for Excellence Scholarship in the amount of $500 will be established to be awarded annually by the current recipient at the annual Awards Luncheon.
- The Board of Governors will be informed of the award recipient.
Procedure
Nomination
- Nominations will be accepted on an annual basis from all sectors of the College including faculty, staff and administration. A nomination form is available on line.
- The form, signed by three nominators and accompanied by a one to two-page narrative, should be submitted, in confidence, to the President and CEO.
- All nominations are confidential.
Selection
- The nomination is forwarded to Lambton College Excellence Award Selection Committee, which is comprised of 2 support staff, 1 administrative and 2 faculty members and chaired by the senior leader of the department of People & Organization Development. The Committee will make a recommendation to the President.
- The President has the final decision on the President’s Award for Excellence recipient(s).
- The Lambton College Excellence Award Committee for reconsideration in the following year may forward some unsuccessful nominations.
- The recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence will be notified confidentially one week prior to the Employee Recognition.