9th Faculty Awards – VIFA 2023

The 9th Venus International Faculty Awards – VIFA 2023 is convened by the Centre for Learning Network (CLN) of Venus International Foundation (VIF).

This Annual Awards are presented yearly during the Contemporary Academic Meets (CAM). The VIFA (conducted in accordance with the VIF BOARD MEETING resolution vide F. No. VIF/MIN/BM–I/2022 held on 4th July 2022 at VIF Head Quarters) invites nominations for Faculty Awards vide F.No.VIF/CFN/FA/2023 opened on 7 December 2022 from eligible individuals.

Categories and Criteria

Professor of the Year
Distinguished Faculty
Outstanding Faculty
Young Faculty

Professor of the Year

Each year since 2020, this award is conferred for a remarkable Faculty who have track record of Teaching Excellence and Pedagogical Innovation – Leadership in Faculty Governance – Exceptional Contribution to Theoretical or Applied Research – Championship in Service to Students, Faculty and Related communities – Continued Extraordinary Productivity over the course of career.

The nominee must be above 55 years of age and at least have 25 years of service as on 30 June 2021.

Distinguished Faculty

Each year since 2015, this award is conferred for a remarkable Faculty Member who have track record of Teaching Excellence and Pedagogical Innovation – Exceptional Contribution to Theoretical or Applied Research – Service to Students and Related communities – Continued Productivity over the course of career.

The nominee must be above 44 years of age and at least have 20 years of service as on 30 June 2021.

Outstanding Faculty

Each year since 2015, this award is conferred for a remarkable Faculty Member who have track record of Teaching Excellence – Contribution to Theoretical or Applied Research – Service to Students and Related communities – Productivity over the course of career.

The nominee must be above 34 years of age and at least have 10 years of service as on 30 June 2021.

Young Faculty

Each year since 2015, this award is conferred for a remarkable Faculty Member who have track record of Teaching Excellence – Contribution to Theoretical or Applied Research – Service to Students.

The nominee must be above 27 years of age and at least have 5 years of service as on 30 June 2021.

Judging Criteria

The VIFA 2023 judging is a peer review process. The panel (from diverse backgrounds, working individually) is instructed to score entries from 0 to 100, using the criteria.

The PANEL aggregates the scores to determine each category. The panel decision is final and binding. For each category/discipline (Eg. Outstanding Faculty – Computer Science) the expert committee will select 2 nominees. However the Apex Committee reserve the rights to honour less or more than 2 nominees in any category who meet standards set by the expert committee.

The committee will use discretion if an individual is nominated for two concurrent awards and will move the nomination to appropriate category based on their judgment.

If a nominee meets the criteria for an award, other than the one nominated for, the committee will be deciding to move the nomination to a suitable category.