ASUN Community-Engaged Learning Faculty Award

Each year, this award recognizes a staff or faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding use and implementation of community engagement. Based on the Carnegie Foundation’s definition of community engagement, award nominees should leverage community engagement to enhance their work, whether it is administrative or academic. This could include a faculty or staff member who has taught a CEL Course, shows exceptional leadership in community engagement, or an administrator who cultivates mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships between the University and the community.

Qualifications

To qualify for the award, the nominee must:

• Be an academic or administrative faculty, LOA, or contingent faculty on appointment with the University of Nevada, Reno.
• Demonstrate exemplary and often innovative integration of community engagement into their work, leadership, scholarship, and/or research. Key elements include:
  • Critical collaboration with the community.
  • Mutual benefit and reciprocity for everyone involved.
  • Address societal or community issues and needs.
  • Enhance curricular or co-curricular activities or frameworks.
  • Reflect on how community engagement contributes to the public good.

Nomination guidelines

A completed nomination form must be submitted by the end of February each academic year, including a summary of how the nominee’s work qualifies them for nomination based on the above qualifications.