Originally posted to the University News Hub at this link.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) has appointed and reappointed outstanding faculty to the system’s highest academic rank, the Regents’ Professor.
“Appointment as a Regents’ Professor reflects a high caliber of academic excellence and significant impact,” said Nicolle Parsons-Pollard, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Georgia State. “I am grateful to the Board for their recognition of the research, scholarship, instruction and dedication of our faculty, and I congratulate our Regents’ Professors for achieving this recognition.”
The Regents’ Professorship is granted by the Board for three years, subject to renewal to a second three-year term by the Board upon the recommendation of the institution’s president, the system chancellor and the Board’s Committee on Academic Affairs.
After six years, the professorship is renewed at the discretion of the university president.
Initial Appointment
- Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Reappointment
- S. Tamer Cavusgil, International Business, J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Reappointment
- Andrew Gewirtz, Institute for Biomedical Sciences
The standards to become a Regents’ Professor are very high. To be eligible for consideration, nominees for the Regents’ Professorship must hold the rank of full professor, normally for at least 10 years.
Nominees must show sustained, and recent, significant achievement in scholarship with high national (and international, where appropriate) citation and recognition, exceeding what is expected for full professors.
Regents’ Professors are expected to excel in formal instruction, dissemination of knowledge to national audiences, and to be successful and active in the mentoring of master’s and doctor’s degree students.
They must also demonstrate substantial contributions in service to their academic discipline and to Georgia State as a whole, including a sustained record of significant positive involvement in the life of the institution.
To learn more about previous Regents’ Professors appointed at Georgia State, click here.
Additionally, faculty were also appointed to the university’s highest institutional-level rank as Distinguished University Professors earlier this year. To learn more, click here.
— Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager for the Office of the Provost