Outstanding service-learning faculty award

Being at the front of the room is a crucial role. Within service-learning and community-engaged scholarship, professors play a critical part in the development, execution, and movement of the course and its applied content. We could not do this work without your high levels of engagement and commitment to cultivating young leaders and scholars within the communities we surround and involve ourselves with. Your work, alongside our students, aids in the collaborative spirit and helps all participants think creatively to best serve the needs of their communities and their members. The purpose of this award is to recognize and celebrate cutting-edge, collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarship being done through a service-learning or community-engaged course or opportunity. More specifically, the faculty or teaching staff should be involved with the experience and encourage a higher level of learning and thinking for the students, the self and the communities they choose to work with.

This award was founded to recognize and honor the vital and necessary role and commitment we have to our faculty or teaching staff members in this collaboration. We hope this award will promote collective and holistic collaboration across disciplines and experiences for all participating parties. The Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement appreciates the many collaborations and relationships that we have with our community and will celebrate one faculty or teaching staff member each year with the Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award. The award winner will receive an invitation to the annual Civic Learning Engagement and Democratic Engagement Breakfast and be recognized for their outstanding accomplishments. They will also receive an individual plaque signed by university staff and leadership.

• Eligibility: Any teaching faculty or staff that have or are currently teaching a service-learning or community-engaged course.
• Evaluation Criteria: Evaluations will be made by a committee of experienced service-learning faculty.
• Nomination: The nominator completes the award application and submits the nomination by the end of the working day on the first Friday in April during each academic year annually.
• Process: To nominate, complete the award application and submit your nomination by Sunday, April 13, 2025.