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.  As a member of ACPA, 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.

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!

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.

Awards

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 7, 2008. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination.

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 7, 2008. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination.

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 7, 2008. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination.

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 7, 2008. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination.

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 7, 2008. Please contact Myra F. Morgan at myram@ufl.edu for information or to submit a nomination.

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: November 7, 2008. Please contact Annie Stevens at annie.stevens@uvm.edu for additional information or to submit a nomination.

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 7, 2008. Please contact Delight Champagne at dchampag@spfldcol.edu for more information or to submit a nomination.

Senior Student Affairs Practitioner Program
Established in 2001, the Senior Student Affairs Practitioner Program Award recognizes senior level professionals who exemplify good practice in student affairs and who have made outstanding contributions to their institutions and the student affairs profession.

Individuals selected for this honor become members of the program for a four year term and are involved in many aspects of the Association including working with the Executive Director and Association leaders to provide professional development opportunities, participating in research related to SSAO positions; developing ways for SSAOs to network and collaborate; mentoring younger professionals; and forming liaison relationships with a variety of constituencies within and beyond ACPA.
Deadline: November 7, 2008. Please contact Greg Sawyer at greg.sawyer@csuci.edu for more information regarding the nomination process.

Senior Scholars Program
The ACPA Senior Scholars Program was implemented in 1984. ACPA Senior Scholars advocate for the integration of scholarship into the practice of student affairs. Senior Scholars, through the creation of an engaged scholar network, keep abreast of promising work and identify critical issues that could benefit from inquiry and attention. The Senior Scholars Program provides scholars with a continuing opportunity to promote scholarship through the presentation of programs of interest to the profession at each national convention and to serve the association on projects related to their fields of interest.

ACPA Senior Scholars represent the best of engaged scholarship relevant to student affairs work in higher education. Nominees are senior members of the profession (for example, generally full professors or senior student affairs officers)who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to ACPA’s mission of generating and disseminating knowledge and who have the commitment to further advance research and theory. A maximum of twelve Senior Scholars can hold active membership. Senior Scholars must be or become members of ACPA. Senior Scholars serve terms of five years, spanning six ACPA national conventions, and are expected to attend at least four ACPA national conventions during their terms and beactive participants in the work of the Senior Scholars.

Nominations, which may either be submitted for someone else or may be a self-nomination, must include the following:
1. A current CV for the nominee.
2. At least one letter of recommendation addressing the nominee’s qualifications, scholarly contributions, and potential to contribute as an ACPA Senior Scholar.

Deadline: October 15, 2009. Nominations should be submitted by e-mail, as a complete nomination package, to the Senior Scholars in care of Marylu McEwen at mmcewen@umd.edu

Emerging Scholars Program
The Emerging Scholars program was implemented by the ACPA Senior Scholars in 1999 to honor individuals who are emerging as contributing scholars in student affairs and higher education. The purpose of the Emerging Scholars program is to support those who are pursuing research initiatives congruent with the mission and interests of ACPA and to enhance and contribute to their future research and scholarship. Commitments of Emerging Scholars are their ongoing research and attendance at two consecutive ACPA conferences, beginning with the ACPA convention immediately following their selection. In their first year as Emerging Scholars, successful applicants will participate in a half-day research institute with the Senior Scholars prior to the beginning of the ACPA convention. At the ACPA convention the following year, Emerging Scholars will present their research at an Emerging Scholar Research Symposium. To be eligible as an Emerging Scholar, candidates must have an earned doctorate and must be or become members of ACPA.

Criteria considered in selection of Emerging Scholars are the following:

• Promising new faculty and practitioner scholars with an early record of scholarship.
• Research initiatives congruent with the mission and interests of ACPA.
• Potential for future contributions to scholarship in student affairs and higher education.
• Potential to benefit from participation in the Emerging Scholars program.
• Earned doctorate within the past five years.
• Must be or become members of ACPA.

Nominations, which may either be submitted for someone else or may be a self-nomination, must include the following:

1. The nominee’s CV.
2. A maximum two-page single-spaced statement, written by the nominee, of the nominee’s current research interests and what the nominee wants to gain from the experience of being an Emerging Scholar.
3. At least one recommendation from a faculty member or practitioner; this letter should address (a) the nominee’s research and scholarship, (b) an assessment of the nominee’s potential for contributions to scholarship, and (c) the nominee’s potential to benefit from participation in the Emerging Scholars program.

Deadline: October 15, 2009. Nominations should be submitted by e-mail, as a complete nomination package, to the Senior Scholars in care of Marylu McEwen at mmcewen@umd.edu

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.

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 10, 2008. For more information or to submit a nomination, please contact Melissa Jones as Coordinator of State Divisions at mljones@vcu.edu . Please contact Thelora Reynolds as Coordinator of International Divisions at thelora.reynolds@uwimona.edu.jm. 

If you have any questions about the awards information or awards program, please contact ACPA Awards Committee Co-Chairs: Myra Morgan, at Myram@ufl.edu or 1 (352) 392-1265 or Jeanne Sevigny, at jsevigny@bu.edu or 1 (617) 353-1593.