Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards-How to Nominate

Forms

The forms for the 2012 COSA awards are now available:

Individual nomination - Microsoft Word and PDF versions
Team nomination -Microsoft Word and PDF versions

Deadline for 2012 Nominations:

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 5:00 pm.

Please submit completed forms and support documents:

As attachment to: cosa [at] lists.berkeley.edu

Via Campus Mail or Fax:

ATTN: Karyn Houston
Plant & Microbial Biology
111 Koshland Hall
MC 3102
Fax: 510-642-4995

Criteria for the COSA Awards

The Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards (COSAs) are presented to individuals and teams who, in addition to performing all their normal job duties with excellence, also demonstrate exceptional initiative in contributing to the UC Berkeley campus community.

The awards seek to recognize the broad diversity of staff within the community and their notable contributions in a variety of areas, listed below. Please see definitions for each criteria.

Eligibility

This award constitutes one of the highest campus-wide honors for staff employees at UC Berkeley. Past nominees and recipients have come from all divisions of the campus and all levels and classifications of staff.

Nominees, both individuals and team members, must be:

Berkeley career staff (appointment type 2) or
Contract (appointment type 1) staff members with non-executive tier titles (i.e., not SMG, Senior Management Group) and
who have at least one year of employment at UC Berkeley.

Academic appointees (both senate and non-senate) are not eligible. A staff member who has received an individual COSA within the last three years is not eligible for an individual award. However, he/she may receive a team award.

Eligible teams are:

two or more individuals united around a specific project;
structured to work collaboratively;
may or may not be from the same department;
meet measurable outcomes, generally within a specific time frame;
consist of members who are all accountable for the work.

Work groups (individuals grouped together for administrative or organizational purposes who interact to accomplish unit or departmental goals) can be considered eligible for a team nomination in their completion of a one-time project, but not for meeting on-going departmental or unit goals.

Entire units or departments are typically not eligible for a team nomination.

Who can nominate?

Any member of the campus community, including staff, faculty, and students, may submit nominations. Nominations need not come from the nominee's supervisor or department.

Questions

If you have any questions, please contact CSAC member Norman Tom: cosa [at] lists.berkeley.edu 642-3166.