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ACPA Award Nomination Information
It’s An Honor. It’s A Celebration!
It’s time, once again, to honor and celebrate those individuals whose efforts and contributions advance the goals of ACPA and our profession. All members of ACPA are eligible to nominate or be nominated for these awards. Please review the award categories listed below and nominate your colleagues and other members of ACPA whose work and contributions have been significant to your practice and to our profession.
Please note that most of the awards have unique deadlines and different contact persons, so read the material carefully. For information on the awards, visit the ACPA Membership Award Descriptions.
Our members play a pivotal role in this process as we honor the work of those who help to shape our profession and to recognize the generations that have come before and will follow after us. You are invited into that tradition and journey. Let the celebration begin!
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Nomination Process You may nominate yourself or another individual. To nominate someone, send a nomination letter including the nominee's telephone number, and e-mail address. The nomination letter should be accompanied by supporting materials, which include an outline of the person's, or group's contributions based on the criteria for the award. Nominees may be contacted for additional information. You are strongly advised to contact the person listed for the award prior to mailing your nomination to get accurate mailing information (USPS or email). The contact person may also be able to help you with any nomination materials that are required. In addition to this general nomination process, a Nominating Committee, comprised of a broad representation of previous award winners and leaders within the association, will generate a list of nominations for the first five award categories listed below. The association's Awards Selection Committee will consider nominations from both the general process and Nominating Committee. |
Awards
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Contribution to Higher Education Award This award recognizes someone who has advanced a higher education agenda through work at the institutional, regional, and/or national level. The recipient would be someone who has worked outside the association to contribute to the higher education landscape and has, in a meaningful way, enhanced the work done on college campuses and/or with college students. The recipient of this award can be (but is not limited to) a college president, another association leader, a higher education scholar/researcher, someone from the corporate world, or a political leader. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination. |
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Contribution to Knowledge Award This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the profession's body of knowledge through publications, films, speeches, instructions, tapes, and other forms of communication. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination. |
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Esther Lloyd-Jones Professional Service Award This award honors the life and work of one of the earliest pioneers and shapers of our profession, Esther Lloyd-Jones. The award recipient exemplifies the profession's commitment to service through significant, continued, and unselfish service/leadership activities that have benefited the profession, ACPA and the profession's practice on the state and national level. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination. |
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ACPA Excellence in Practice Award This award is presented to practitioners whose designs and program implementations as well as services for their campus are based on the best national practices in student affairs. The association intends to honor practitioners who have been responsible for achievements that impact a campus for a sustained period of time (five to ten years). Deadline: November 18, 2011. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination. |
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Lifetime Achievement Award Recognizes individuals who have a minimum of two decades or other exhibited long-term involvement and service to the field of student affairs over an extended period of time; recognized level of scholarly productivity; and/or leadership at one or more institutions of higher learning as a Student Affairs staff member, administrator, or faculty member. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination. |
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Voice of Inclusion Medallion (Two awards: Individual and Exemplary Programs) This award recognizes individuals and exemplary campus-based programs in the field of higher education and student affairs that have in some way contributed to making their campus communities a welcoming environment for all. Individual Award To qualify for the individual award, an individual must have been employed professionally in the field of student affairs for a minimum of five years and must have provided leadership to several initiatives that support diversity and multiculturalism on their home campus. Exemplary Program The following program criteria are used in considering exemplary program recipients: program should respond to an assessed or measured need in the areas of multiculturalism and diversity; achieve an expressed outcome; have a well-developed and creative design; translate to other institutional environments; and include an evaluation process that demonstrates its impact. Deadline: October 14, 2011. Please contact Annie Stevens at annie.stevens@uvm.edu for additional information or to submit a nomination. |
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Annuit Coeptis Each year up to three Senior Professionals and up to five Emerging Professionals are accepted. These individuals are honored for their contributions to the fields of administration, teaching, research, and publications. Service to ACPA and leadership are also factors that should be considered. This award celebrates the lives of Philip A. Tripp and Ursula Delworth, who dearly loved to challenge their contemporaries and junior colleagues in a spirit of personal and professional sharing, good humor, and intellectual debates. The Latin phrase, annuit coeptis, reflects Professor Tripp's optimism for the future by suggesting that “He has smiled upon that which we have begun.” Deadline: November 18, 2011. Please contact Michael Coomes at mcoomes@bgsu.edu for more information or to submit a nomination. |
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Senior Scholars Program Please contact Peter Magolda at magoldpm@muohio.edu for more information or to submit a nomination. Deadline: October 14, 2011. For details, please visit the Senior Scholars Program Web page. |
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Association-Wide Commission Awards Commission Awards for Excellence are given in the following areas: Member Service, Strategic Partnerships, Programming, Publications, and Research & Scholarship. In addition, the Overall Distinguished Accomplishment Award is granted to the Commission that demonstrates, through its breadth of achievements, outstanding contributions toward meeting one or more of the strategic planning goals of the Association. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Contact Heather Shea Gasser at hgasser@uidaho.edu for more information or to submit a nomination. |
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Association-Wide State and International Division Awards These awards include: Outstanding State & International Division Award; Outstanding State & International Division Leader Award; and Outstanding State & International Division Award for Innovation. Outstanding State and International Division The Outstanding State and International Division Award recognizes outstanding state or international division activities including conferences, publications and professional efforts. Outstanding State and International Division Leader The Outstanding State and International Division Leader Award recognizes a leader from a state or international college personnel association who has made significant contributions to his/her respective association. Outstanding State and International Division for Innovation The Outstanding State and International Division Award for Innovation recognizes an innovative program or service sponsored by a state or international division during the past full association year. Outstanding State and International Division for Membership, Recruitment and Retention The Outstanding State and International Division Award for Membership, Recruitment and Retention is given to a division who has attained increases in its membership during the year. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Contact Sandra Emerick at s.emerick@csuohio.edu or Matthew Antonio Bosch at mbosch@nhcc.edu for more information or to submit a nomination. |
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Champion of Sustainability Award The Champion of Sustainability Award is granted each year to the individual or group that best models the triple bottom line of sustainability: Healthy Environments, Social Justice, and Strong Economies. Deadline: November 18, 2011. Contact Keith Edwards at kedward2@macalaster.edu or more information or to submit a nomination. |
If you have any questions about the awards information or awards program, please contact either ACPA Awards Committee co-chairs: Myra Morgan, at myram@ufl.edu or Jared Tuberty, at jaredt@bgsu.edu.