Utah Campus Compact & UVU Volunteer and Service-Learning Center

Award Nominations

 

Nominations are now being accepted for Utah Campus Compact Statewide Recognition Event and the UVU Volunteer & Service-Learning Center Recognition & Appreciation Luncheon. The purpose of these events is to recognize the work of outstanding faculty, staff, students, on a statewide and institutional level who are excelling in civic engagement, service-learning, and volunteerism. Recipients of the awards will be honored at both events which are held in April.

 

Nominations are now being accepted for the following categories:

 

1. Civically Engaged Scholar

2. Civically Engaged Staff Member

3. Civically Engaged Student

4. Committed Community Partner

 

Selection Criteria

 

Civically Engaged Scholar

This award recognizes an individual with:

 

    * Experience in using service-learning as a pedagogy
 
    * Innovation in ways of employing reflective strategies to connect students' service with academics
 
    * Evidence of engaged scholarship through integration, application, teaching, and/or community-based research
 
    * Evident of institution impact through promotion of service-learning on campus, in one's discipline, and/or efforts aimed at redesigning curriculum or faculty development

 

Civically Engaged Staff Member

This award recognizes a staff member with:

 

    * Leadership in advancing community engagement as a critical component within their higher education institution
 
    * Evidence of supporting faculty, administrators, and students
 
    * Formation of innovative campus and community partnerships
 
    * Engaging, modeling, or influencing students to be involved in community service and/or service-learning

 

Civically Engaged Student

This award recognizes a student who:

 
    * Demonstrates an innovative approach to building or enhancing campus-based efforts to address community needs/issues
 
    * Employs use of diverse engagement strategies (service, service-learning, advocacy, policy work, etc.)
 
    * Demonstrates ability to lead, inspire, and engage other students, members of institution, or community
 
    * Demonstrates efforts to sustain their programs/work through developing strategies for institutional and community commitment

 

Committed Community Partner

This award recognizes an individual or organization who:

 
    * Has enhanced the Community Partners involvement portion of UVU’s civic engagement/service-learning program
 
    * Has provided meaningful service and learning opportunities for students
 
    * Has had their mission/programs/goals of the agency fulfilled or enhanced by partnering with UVU

 

Nomination Process

 

To nominate an individual or community partner please submit the following:

 

 

Nominee information due via email to Alexis Palmer,

palmeral@uvu.edu, by February 13th at 5:00pm.

 

If you have any questions please contact Alexis Palmer at 863-8681.