Due date: September 30, 1999.
Purpose of the Awards: To recognize significant and enduring contributions in scholarship or public service to southern agricultural economics. Scholarship would entail teaching and research while public service would embrace not only extension but all other outreach activities in government and agribusiness. .
Nature of the Award: The award shall be called "Southern Agricultural Economics Association Lifetime Achievement Award." The winners of the award shall be announced annually with the awards presented at the annual meetings of the SAEA. Each recipient will receive a framed certificate and a free membership to the Southern Agricultural Economics Association for the remainder of his or her life. The total number of recipients shall not exceed three annually.
Eligibility Requirements: Nominees must have completed at least 25 years of professional service and must have made significant and enduring contributions to the profession. This award is recognition of one's contribution to southern agricultural economics throughout a professional career. The award may be given posthumously. The recipient need not live (or have lived) in the southern region, but must have been a member of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association at some time in his or her career.
Nomination Procedure: Nominations must be made by SAEA members and/or agricultural economics and related departments. Nominations will consist of the following:
1. A statement, not longer than two double-spaced pages, summarizing contributions in scholarship (teaching and/or research) and/or public service (extension and other outreach activities including such activities in government or agribusiness) to southern agricultural economics throughout the nominee's professional career.
2. A detailed resume of the nominee.
3. Copies of not more than three published works which exemplify research contributions of the nominee and a brief summary of other works which provide tangible evidence of the nominee's contributions to southern agricultural economics; and/or summaries of courses taught, topics covered, formal evaluations of teaching, and not more than three tangible examples of teaching aids or other tangible examples of extension or outreach program materials exemplifying the nominee's contributions in public service to southern agricultural economics.
4. Letters indicating contributions the nominee has made to southern agricultural economics (maximum of 3).
Selection Committee: The Selection Committee for the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Lifetime Achievement Award shall be the Past President of the SAEA and three members of the SAEA, not on the executive committee, to be appointed to staggered three-year terms by the President. The current Past President will chair the selection committee and will be the liaison between the selection committee and the SAEA executive committee. The deadline for nominations is September 30, 1999 (postmark, 1st class mail). Mail four copies of nominations to:
Dr. Eduardo Segarra
Past President
Dept of Ag. & Applied Economics
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-2132
tel: 806-742-2821 ext. 242