Guidance:The award is intended to recognize the highest level of scholarly achievement. This is not intended to encourage start-up research or scholarship-in-progress. It should recognize career crowning achievements.

The Warburton Award is presented as a recognition of achievements demonstrated by a record of outstanding publication, and the delivery of scholarly papers before prestigious international or national organizations. The career's achievements should be worthy of international or national recognition, with significant impact upon a field of scholarship in the Social Sciences.

The Warburton Award Committee may consider other scholarly distinctions which focus international or national scholarly acclaim upon a tenured faculty member and the College of Social Sciences, San José State University.

Awards may be deferred when, in the judgment of the Selection Committee, no nominee has achieved the level of distinction required by the Austen D. Warburton Award.  The Award itself and the attainments of its recipient are to be mutually enhancing.

The recipient of the Award will address a meeting of the faculty, alumni, and friends of College of Social Sciences and present the essence of the scholarly achievement(s) upon which the Award was granted.  The social as well as the intellectual environment within the College of Social Sciences should be enhanced by the Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit and by the presentations of its recipients.

Selection Process: Any faculty member in the College of Social Sciences may nominate a tenured colleague.  The letter of nomination, preferably with the nominee's vita, is normally due in the Dean's Office on the first Friday in March.

Selection Committee: The Dean of the College of Social Sciences will convene a five member committee of scholars from the College to form the selection committee. These scholars are to be those who have had their own academic achievements recognized by the University as Outstanding Professors or President's Scholars.  If needed, the Dean, in consultation with the Chairs, may select other notable scholars from the College to assure full committee membership.

The Dean will organize their participation in the selection process.  The Selection Committee will elect its own chair.  The Dean will not vote and will not participate in the deliberations.  No member of the Selection Committee may be a nominee for the annual award during the year in which he or she serves on the Selection Committee.  The Dean may not be a nominee.  Except for those in the Faculty Early Retirement Program, fully retired faculty may not be nominees.

Announcement: The announcement of the Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit will be made by the Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the College Award Reception held in mid April.
Rev. 2-29-00

Nominations Due: March 4, 2005- 4:00 P.M., Dean's Office - WSQ 103

AUSTEN WARBURTON AWARD RECIPIENTS  :

1991    James Freeman, Anthropology
1992    Larry Engelmann, History
1993    Robert Gliner, Sociology
1994    Robert Hicks, Psychology
1995    Robert Pellegrini, Psychology
1996    James Walsh, History
1997    Paul Leigh, Economics
1998    Thomas Layton, Anthropology
1999    Robert Fox, Psychology
2000    Kevin Jordan, Psychology
2001    James Lull, Communication Studies
2002    Rodolfo Gonzales, Economics
2003    Jo Sprague, Communication Studies
2004    June Anne English-Lueck, Anthropology