{"id":26621,"date":"2025-05-21T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&p=26621"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:38:01","slug":"call-for-nominations-ahs-staff-award-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/call-for-nominations-ahs-staff-award-of-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for nominations: AHS Staff Award of Merit"},"template":"","news_categories":[23,15],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-26621","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-admin-note","news_categories-honors-and-recognition"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"

The AHS Staff Council<\/a> is pleased to announce that the application process for the 2024-25 AHS Staff Award of Merit<\/a> is now open. We invite members of our community to submit nominations or self-nominations for AHS staff members who exemplify excellence in their roles.<\/p>\n

Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Civil Service and Academic Professional employees at UIC, including those based at regional campuses and Chicago-based units of the University of Illinois System, are eligible.<\/li>\n
  2. Nominees must be employed for at least three consecutive years at full-time or six consecutive years at 50% time (or higher). Qualifying years of service must be completed by April of the nomination year.<\/li>\n
  3. Service eligibility must meet service recognition guidelines outlined under UIC Human Resources Policy 704: UIC Award of Merit Program<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Previous winners may be nominated for subsequent Awards of Merit, provided that a minimum of five years has elapsed between the last award and the next nomination.<\/li>\n
  5. Previous winners of the CAPE Award or Rising Star Award may be nominated for the Award of Merit, provided that a minimum of five years has elapsed since the last time receiving the CAPE Award<\/a> or Rising Star Award<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Academic Professional employees with an academic rank (faculty title) are not eligible for the Award of Merit. The final review and decision will be determined by UIC Human Resources.<\/li>\n
  7. Any employee with disciplinary action on their University employment record within the last three years or who has been issued a terminal contract, except those Academic Professionals undergoing conversion to a Civil Service position, are not eligible for the Award of Merit. Information will be verified with the nominee\u2019s unit.<\/li>\n
  8. An employee may not receive more than one of the following awards in the same Employee Recognition season: Award of Merit, CAPE Award, Rising Star, and Janice Watkins Award.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Click<\/strong> here to submit<\/strong><\/a> your nomination for AHS Award of Merit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Thank you for your attention, and we look forward to reviewing the nominations received.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Melvin Woolfolk","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26708,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26621\/revisions\/26708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=26621"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=26621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}