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The deadline for nominations is February 5, 2010.
RATIONALE FOR THE AWARD
Graduate students are presently afforded multiple opportunities to be recognized for outstanding academics or scholarship. In contrast, there are few opportunities for them to be recognized for their leadership in service. The College of Education Graduate Student Leadership and Service Award is intended to recognize students who exhibit leadership through service as a means of improving the quality of graduate student life in the College of Education and making the graduate experience better for all. The intentional focus on service leadership acknowledges that student representation and contributions to university, college and program initiatives provide benefits for the student body as a whole. In addition, service through informal mentoring to peers creates a cohesive and collaborative climate in which graduate students can feel connected and supported. .
NOMINATION CRITERIA
The recipient shall be a graduate student in good standing in one of the six programs in the College of Education who exhibits exemplary leadership and service. Such leadership and service may be within or across college programs (such as student representative to program meetings and informal mentoring of graduate students in the college) and can also be to the college as a whole (such as diversity initiatives), to the profession (such as serving as a university professional organizational representative), or to the university as a whole (such as service on the Graduate Student Council). Students demonstrating outstanding scholarship may also be nominated, but such students must demonstrate exemplary leadership or service in addition to their scholarship.
The award covers the calendar year prior to its being awarded (2009). Thus, any deserving student, including those recently graduated, who provided exemplary leadership and service in the previous calendar year is eligible to be nominated.
NOMINATION PROCESS
The deadline for nominations is February 5, 2010.
Each of the six programs in the college will be asked each year to nominate deserving students. In a typical year, each program will nominate at least one student. While programs are most likely to nominate students working in their own programs, they may also nominate students in other programs in the college. In addition, a call for nominations will be sent out to all COE faculty, students and staff, soliciting their nominations as well. Nominations of students from all graduate degree levels (masters, educational specialist, and doctoral) will be considered.
Nominations may be submitted by graduate students, faculty and staff. Self-nominations will not be considered.
A student nominated for the COE Graduate Student Leadership and Service Award is also eligible to be nominated for the university Graduate Student Life Leadership Award. The two awards are not mutually exclusive, nor is the winner of the College award automatically nominated for the university award.
SELECTION PROCESS
The selection committee consists of five members: two faculty members, two graduate students, and one representative from the dean’s office. Student representatives may not be nominees, although they may be previous winners. The dean will appoint the members of the committee.
By convention, when a previous winner who is not a current nominee is available, he/she will be asked to serve as one of the student representatives. If two such winners are available, they will be asked to serve as the student representatives.
The dean will solicit from the program coordinators the names of possible student representatives, disqualifying any student who is also a nominee.
In most years the selection committee will select a single winner, although co-winners may be selected where warranted.
AWARD PROCESS
The winner, or co-winners, will receive $250 in professional development funds. In addition, the names of each year’s winner(s) will be engraved on a publicly posted institutional plaque listing previous winners. The award will be given at the Student Life Award Celebration in April 2010 and the winner will be acknowledged during Graduate Student Appreciation Week. |
