Academic Excellence Award Nomination Form

Recognize Outstanding Faculty with a Streamlined Academic Excellence Award Nomination Process

Identifying and celebrating exceptional educators and researchers is crucial for maintaining academic standards and fostering a culture of excellence at your institution. This Academic Excellence Award Nomination Form provides university departments, academic committees, and educational institutions with a professional, comprehensive tool to gather detailed nominations for faculty recognition programs.

Built for Academic Institutions

Whether you're running an annual teaching excellence award, research achievement recognition, or lifetime contribution honors, this template captures everything evaluation committees need: detailed research publications, teaching evaluation metrics, student testimonials, and comprehensive nominee information. The structured format ensures consistency across all nominations while giving nominators the flexibility to present a compelling case for their candidate.

Streamline Your Awards Process with Paperform

This template demonstrates how Paperform helps universities and educational institutions move beyond email chains and Word documents. The professional, on-brand design ensures your awards program reflects the prestige of your institution, while conditional logic adapts questions based on nomination category—whether recognizing teaching excellence, research achievements, or service contributions.

Automate your workflow with Stepper: Once nominations are submitted, use Stepper to automatically route applications to the appropriate review committee, send confirmation emails to nominators, create evaluation scorecards in your project management system, and notify nominees when the review process begins. You can even set up approval workflows that track committee feedback and compile finalist portfolios—all without manual data entry.

Perfect for university administrators, department chairs, academic deans, awards committees, and faculty affairs offices, this template helps you run a transparent, efficient recognition program that truly honors academic excellence.