ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

1. Only University of Florida budgeted Graduate Faculty (tenured or untenured) who supervise doctoral dissertations are eligible.
2. Faculty must actively support graduate education through teaching, service on graduate committees and sponsorship of student research and scholarship.
3. As verified in GIMS, the nominee must have graduated (served as committee chair or co-chair) at least one doctoral student during the preceding year (Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020) AND must have graduated (served as committee chair or co-chair) at least two additional students with dissertation degrees in the past five years (Fall 2015 through Summer 2020, inclusively). 
4. Nominations for Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awards will be accepted from graduate students, former graduate students, faculty members, department chairs, graduate coordinators, and higher-level administrators.  Individual faculty members may not nominate themselves.
5. Individuals who receive a Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award during the previous three years are not eligible.