SEC Faculty Achievement Awards recognize the work of world-renowned faculty members with outstanding records in teaching, research and scholarship.
All recipients of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award receive an honorarium from the SEC. The top recipient will be named SEC Professor of the Year, and is honored during the annual SEC awards dinner and recognized in conjunction with the SEC Symposium. Winners of individual university awards and the overall honoree are announced in May
The Office of the Provost will invite academic deans to nominate an individual from their college for the SECU Faculty Achievement Award. The Provost will determine the winner and submit the name of the USC recipient to the SEC. To be eligible for the award, a faculty member shall:
- Be a teacher/scholar
- Have achieved the rank of professor
- Have a record of extraordinary teaching
- Have an outstanding record of scholarship that is recognized nationally and/or internationally
- Not be a past SEC Faculty Achievement award winner
For further information regarding the Faculty Achievement Award, please contact the Office of the Provost at PROVACAF@mailbox.sc.edu
Past Recipients
| 2021 | Mark Weist | Psychology |
| 2020 | Gail Barnes | Music |
| 2019 | Xiaoming Li | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
| 2018 | Julius Fridriksson | Communication Sciences and Disorder |
| 2017 | David Shields | English |
| 2016 | Claudia Benitez-Nelson | Marine Science |
| 2015 | Marina Lomazov | Music |
| 2014 | Kenneth Reifsnider | Mechanical Engineering |
| 2013 | Susan Cutter | Geography |
| 2012 | Scott Price | Music |