What happened to the Faculty & Staff Excellence Awards??

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The Faculty & Staff Excellence Awards are a YUGE deal for TSU.  YUGE!!  Last year King Lane had a big ceremony in the MLK auditorium.  It was like the Oscars broadcast via live webcast.  There was nominee names placed up on a big screen and names were called out and people went up to clapping and cheers and awards handed out with handshakes with the King himself!   

The awards ceremony was probably one of the best (maybe only) thing King Lane ever did for all of TSU, showcasing years of hard work, sacrifice and dedication for just 1 afternoon in a year of recognition and pride.

Now it appears that the Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards have mysteriously been postponed, delayed or cancelled.  We can't quite figure out which category to fall into since there hasn't been any TSU mass emails ;-)

Certainly it is puzzling.  Below is an email from Dr. Rasoul Saneifard extending the Faculty Excellence Awards deadline by 14 days and yet the entire summer went by without any TSU mass emails on what the status is of these awards.  Why no announcement?  

In fact, TSU has had virtual graduations, BOR, admin, staff meetings, dissertation defenses, conferences etc.  Why not a virtual Faculty & Staff Excellence Awards show?  Wouldn't that be such a great way to unite our faculty, students, alumni and staff together with our administrators and BOR to showcase and brag about our talent and winners, even just post the winners on our website and mail the awards.  Of course, especially with Covid, the cash prize would definitely help a lot of faculty and staff too.  

Transparency State has been provided with confirmed emails which show that at least 1 committee met to make a final decision on 2 categories- Faculty Teaching Excellence and the Provost Department of the Year Awards.  Both final award winners were emailed to the Provost office & we assume the other committees met and submitted their award winners.    

Finally, what we find so puzzling and strange is that the deadline was extended, even subtle hints to please apply (OK maybe not so subtle!) were placed in the body of the email -$$$$$- from Dr. Rasoul Saneifard.  So if the extension was an entire 14 days (April 1-April 15) and the committees met and submitted their final decisions and we had all these virtual events.....what happened??




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