In 2010, Dan and Charlotte Hornaday generously provided a donation to the University of Arkansas at Monticello to establish a perpetual endowment to be used exclusively for the recognition of exemplary faculty. Earnings from the investment of the endowed principal are used annually to provide a monetary award to the recipient of the Hornaday Outstanding Faculty Award. 

Criteria of Award

The Hornaday Outstanding Faculty Award recognizes an individual who demonstrates excellence in the areas of teaching or research/scholarship or service.

• Excellence in Teaching: To recognize, encourage, and reward superior teachers whose command of their respective disciplines, teaching methodologies, communications skills, concern for student performance, and commitment to the learning process exemplify the teacher/mentor model. More than a popularity contest, it distinguishes those who maintain high expectations of their students and who ensure academic rigor in their courses.
• Excellence in Research/Scholarship: To recognize, encourage, and reward those individuals whose research, scholarship, and creative efforts have been particularly successful and are recognized locally, regionally, and/or nationally. The results of these efforts should have contributed to the expansion of knowledge and/or the quality of life, and/or encouraged additional research.
• Excellence in Public Service: To recognize, encourage, and reward those individuals who have brought credit to the University of Arkansas at Monticello through their successful efforts in service to the community, state, or nation in areas of public interest. Their achievements in serving the public interest should have been particularly successful and should have been recognized locally, regionally, and/or nationally.
• Normally, only accomplishments completed while the individual was a UAM employee will be considered.

Eligibility

• Any person on any of the three UAM campuses who is employed as a full-time “member of the faculty” shall be eligible for nomination regardless of faculty rank or title, provided he/she satisfies the remaining qualifications below. “Member of the faculty” is defined as one who holds academic rank and who is directly engaged in instruction, public service, research or scholarly works.
• The faculty member must have completed at least three academic years of teaching at UAM, exclusive of summer terms.
• The faculty member must have taught at least half-time in two of the last three years at UAM.
• Faculty members with 50% or more administrative responsibilities are not eligible.

Nominations

• Nominations for the award will be accepted from faculty, administration, staff, students and alumni. The nominator should determine that the nominee agrees to be nominated prior to submitting the nomination.
• Self-nominations and anonymous nominations are not permitted.

A nomination requires the submission of a nomination using the following form: Hornaday Outstanding Faculty Award Nomination Form