About the Awards
Nominations
Award Categories
Selection Criteria
Eligibility Requirements
Selection Committee
Questions
Past Awardees

About the Boston University Undergraduate Academic Advising Awards:

The Academic Advising Awards annually recognize advisors who have engaged students in the collaborative process of advising and have had a significant impact on students’ academic careers.

Winners receive an award of $1500 and are publicly recognized at the annual Advisor End-of-Year Celebration on April 30, 2025.

Nominations:

Boston University students, staff, faculty, and alumni are invited to nominate one eligible candidate per category per year. Nominations can be submitted through this form. Please write full responses to each question as they will be used in selecting the winners.

An “academic advisor” is a faculty or staff member who formally serves as a student’s designated advisor. Students, of course, seek advice from many members of the university community who are not their official academic advisor, but these awards have been established to celebrate students’ formally designated academic advisors.

Nominations for the 2025 awards are due February 14 through this form!

If you have any questions about the Academic Advising Awards, please email the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at apunderg@bu.edu.

Categories:

  1. Professional Academic Advisor: Staff members whose primary role at the University is academic advising.
  2. Faculty Academic Advisor: Faculty members whose primary responsibility is teaching and/or research and who spend a portion of their time advising students. (The Faculty of Boston University consists of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors; those with professorial titles modified by “Research,” “Clinical,” and “of the Practice”; Lecturers of all ranks; Instructors.)

Selection Criteria:

While there are different roles and expectations of advisors among the undergraduate Schools and Colleges, all nominees must:

  • Engage students in the collaborative process of exploring and creating a rich, challenging undergraduate education.
  • Have a significant impact on students’ undergraduate experience.

Eligibility Requirements:

To be eligible for consideration, an advisor must:

  • Have held a full-time, continuing position for not less than six semesters at the time of nomination;
  • Be a current BU faculty member or staff member;
  • Not be currently under review for promotion or tenure;
  • Not be on sabbatical leave or leave of absence during the current academic year;
  • Not be a previous winner of a Boston University Undergraduate Academic Advising Award.

Selection Committee:

The Academic Advising Awards Committee will ordinarily consist of two undergraduate students, two faculty/staff members from the Advising Network, a representative from the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, and two previous Academic Advising Award winners.

  • 2025 Advising Awards Selection Committee
    • Chair: Matthew Bae, Director of Student Services and Academic Advising, CGS
    • Elizabeth Carter, Undergraduate Academic Advisor, CDS
    • Elizabeth Vassallo, Director, Undergraduate Student Services, WHE
    • John Kirks, Master Lecturer, Strategy and Innovation, QST
    • Kristin Weisse, Associate Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Support Services
    • Marcus Shaw, Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Sociology, CAS
    • Merav Shohet, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology, CAS
  • Intranet Site for the 2025 Academic Advising Awards Committee Members (Kerberos protected).

Questions:

If you have any questions or concerns about these awards, please email apunderg@bu.edu.