Recognizing 2025 Award Winners
Learn more about the faculty, staff and students who earned SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence and promotions to SUNY’s Distinguished Academy during the 2024-25 academic year.
SUNY Distinguished Faculty
- Distinguished Teaching Professor Caroline Kaltefleiter of the Communication and Media Studies Department
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Distinguished Professor Mechthild Nagel of the Philosophy Department
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Faculty/Staff Excellence
- Katherine “Kati” Ahern, associate professor, English Department — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
- Lisa Czirr, associate librarian, Memorial Library — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship
- Katherine Hicks, professor, Chemistry Department — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
- Daniel Radus, associate professor, English Department — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Tracy Rammacher, director, Marketing Office — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service
- Kimberly Rombach ’88, M ’93, associate dean, School of Education — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Abby Thomas, director, Advisement and Transition — Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
- Vinny Aquino, a psychology major from Uniondale, N.Y.
- Khyla Diggs, an adolescence education: social studies and history dual major, minoring in Africana studies, from Middletown, N.Y.
- Hunter Martorella, a childhood/early childhood education major from La Fayette, N.Y.
- Riley Meckley, a history and adolescence education: social studies dual major from Port Jefferson, N.Y.
Nominating Faculty and Staff Members
Learn more about how to nominate faculty and staff members for SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence and promotions to the SUNY Distinguished Academy.
SUNY Distinguished Faculty
Please consider writing a letter for a full professor to nominate them to the rank reserved for the university’s most distinguished professors in one of the following categories:
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Distinguished Professorship
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Distinguished Service Professorship
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Distinguished Teaching Professorship
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Distinguished Librarian
Refer to the Faculty Senate page for full nomination procedures, guidelines and checklists.
Refer to the SUNY website for more information about system-wide faculty and staff awards.
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Faculty/Staff Excellence
Please consider writing a nominating letter for a deserving colleague for a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in one of the following categories:
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching
Refer to the Faculty Senate page for full nomination procedures, guidelines and checklists.
Refer to the SUNY website for more information about system-wide faculty and staff awards.
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Classified Service is managed through the Human Resources and President’s offices. A separate call for nominations takes place in the spring semester. Please contact president@cortland.edu with questions about this award.
The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence is managed through the Division of Student Affairs. A separate call for nominations takes place in the fall semester. Please contact the Division of Student Affairs with questions about this award.