Lisa Glidden earns Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
SUNY Oswego faculty member Lisa Glidden, a professor of political science and director of global and international studies, has earned the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.
Joining the university in 2007, her time at SUNY Oswego has included managing a demanding career while demonstrating exemplary service not just to the campus, but also to the larger community.
Glidden has been a very active member of the university’s Faculty Assembly, chairing this group integral to shared governance from 2016 to 2020. She also served as the co-chair of the Campus Concepts Committee, among many other responsibilities.
In this role, Glidden modeled the essence of shared governance, working collaboratively with administration, nominators said. She presented a paper with then-President Deborah F. Stanley, “The Campus Concept Committee: A Case Study in Shared Governance” at a SUNY Shared Governance conference, with the paper subsequently published in “Shared Governance in Higher Education: Vitality and Continuity in Times of Change,” the third volume in the Shared Governance series from SUNY Press.
History professor and Honors Program Director Gwen Kay, who is the current Faculty Assembly chair and a former president of the statewide University Faculty Senate, praised Glidden’s leadership in a time of rapid change, especially in 2020 when the COVID pandemic first broke.
“To the extent possible, the top-down decisions (Governor, Chancellor) meant conversation on campus before rapid implementation,” Kay wrote. “Here, Dr. Glidden’s campus service as chair, and SUNY service as convener, was helpful: she had access to information quickly and was able to represent faculty and staff as much as possible in the constantly changing guidance around COVID. She also shared information with campus much more quickly than many of her peers on other campuses, because of the relationship formed with President Stanley.”
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Politics professor Lisa Glidden receives her Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service and congratulations from President Peter O. Nwosu at SUNY Oswego's Opening Breakfast on Aug. 20.