Eligibility Criteria for Nominating Faculty

DECISION TREE

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Nominating faculty must:

  • Be an Ohio State tenure-track faculty member.
  • Nominate only one person.
  • Not be the candidate’s PhD or terminal degree advisor.
  • Submit a mentoring plan based on the candidate’s individual development plan (IDP).
  • Attend an orientation session to learn more about the PPSP program and the review criteria for the year two renewal. Co-mentors must attend as well.
  • Participate in next year’s PPSP review efforts.
  • Note: Faculty members whose nominee received this award last year cannot nominate anyone this year.
  • Additionally, nominating faculty members are strongly encouraged to meet the following criteria based off of the decision tree found below:
    • Faculty in fields with a tradition of postdoctoral training: Have experience training postdoctoral scholars. If the nominating faculty member does not have postdoctoral training experience, they are encouraged to pursue formal mentoring training from a professional society (e.g., National Research Mentoring Network or similar entity). Proof of pursuing and/or completing training should be submitted with the nomination package. Additionally, we strongly encourage prospective faculty mentors without five years of experience to include a co-mentor who has mentored at least five postdoctoral scholars previously.
    • Faculty in fields for which postdoctoral training is new: Have trained at least five doctoral/MFA students. They should provide a list of terminal degree mentees in the form provided for postdoctoral training experience. If the nominating faculty member does not have the required doctoral/MFA training experience, they are encouraged to have received formal mentoring training from an entity in their field or related discipline (e.g., formal training through the National Research Mentoring Network or similar entity) and to include a co-mentor who has the experience as outlined above who has mentored at least five doctoral/MFA students.
    • The role of the co-mentor is to be a resource for the postdoctoral scholar and their mentor. The co-mentor’s experience in mentoring scholars in their field qualifies them to advise on how to mentor the candidate towards independence, and to expand the postdoctoral scholar’s mentoring network. The co-mentor does not need to be involved in the research plan (although this is not forbidden).