Awards & Honours Committee

Responsibilities

• Advise Senate on policies, procedures, priorities and criteria for student awards and honours.
• In accordance with the Honorary Degrees Policy, evaluate nominees for honorary degrees and recommend candidates to Senate.
• In accordance with the Emeritus/Emerita Designation Policy, evaluate nominees for honorary title of Professor Emeritus/Educator Emeritus and recommend candidates to the President’s Office.
• Evaluate student candidates for medals and select awards and make recommendations to Senate.
• Through Senate, recommend to the TRU Foundation, awards priorities which are in the best interest of the institution.
• Recommend to Senate revisions to TRU entrance scholarship policy and regulations.
• Advise the Director, Student Awards & Financial Aid on matters of policy and procedure relating to institutional student loans, fee deferrals and need-based awards.

Membership

• Chair: A member of the Committee elected by the Committee for a two year term. No person shall serve more than two consecutive terms as Chair.
• Three faculty members (which may include one Open Learning faculty member) appointed by Senate (at least one has to be a Senator and one must be tenure / tenure track)
• Two deans appointed by Senate
• One representative from Open Learning appointed by the Associate Vice-President, Open Learning
• Director, Student Awards & Financial Aid
• Two students nominated by TRUSU and appointed by the Senate Steering Committee (one should be upper level or a graduate student)
• One representative from the TRU Alumni appointed by the Alumni Department
• Student Awards Representative (ex-officio, non-voting)
• Vice-President, Advancement (ex-officio, non-voting)
• Secretarial support for Awards & Honours meetings: Student Awards & Financial Aid Office