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Distinguished service awards, full-time exempt professional/ administrative staff and full-time classified exempt staff.
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7014.01
Human Resources
Vice President for Legal Affairs and Human Resources
October 1998; October 2010; June 2016
University Affairs
June 15, 2016
2021
- Policy statement. Youngstown state university (“university”) recognizes employees for outstanding performance of duties that contributes to the good of the university and grants awards for such achievement.
- Parameters.
- Up to four awards may be granted annually to full-time exempt professional/administrative staff whose performance at the university has been identified as outstanding.
- Full-time exempt professional/administrative staff award recipients shall receive two thousand dollars, a stipend of one thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars added to the individual’s base salary in the following contract year.
- One award may be granted annually to a full-time exempt classified employee whose performance at the university has been identified as outstanding.
- A full-time classified exempt award recipient shall receive a cash award of one thousand four hundred dollars.
- The president, provost, vice presidents, deans, and executive directors are not eligible for consideration for distinguished service awards.
- Procedures.
- To be eligible to receive a distinguished service award, an individual must be nominated during the “Call for Nominations” process, which is annually initiated in January.
- Staff members, faculty, students, or alumni may make nominations.
- The provost and each vice president will appoint a person from each division to serve as a committee to review nominations and recommend award recipients.
- The committee will seek written input of the supervisors of all persons nominated for an award.
- The names of the award recipients recommended by the committee will be forwarded to the office of human resources.
- Announcement and presentation of the awards occurs at the annual staff awards dinner.
- Annually a list of all recipients of the distinguished service award will be presented to the university affairs committee of the board of trustees.