Outstanding Community Engagement Award
The $1,500 Outstanding Community Engagement Award recognizes important, innovative, and mutually beneficial community engagement work at the University of Montana and is open to faculty or staff. Nominees should be deeply involved with exemplary community engagement activities connecting campus to the community through volunteerism, service learning, outreach, partnership development, community based research, etc. This work may be short or long term, may be with a single or multiple community partners, and should have been active within the past two years. Recipients will be selected based on their work to improve community and establish mutually beneficial partnerships between the University and community (local, regional, rural, or international).
Who is eligible:
The nominee can be a non-student campus employee who does community engagement work.
Who may nominate:
Anyone familiar with an individual who does community engagement work.
Nomination requirements:
-Completed nomination form (see below)
-Two letters of recommendation
Send nominations and documentation to:
Andrea Vernon
Academic Enrichment - Civic Engagement
Davidson Honors College 020
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
Deadline:
TBD
All awards will be presented at the:
Charter Day Awards Ceremony
TBD
Outstanding Community Engagement Award
NOMINATION FORM
Please return this form along with two letters of recommendation to:
Andrea Vernon
Academic Enrichment - Civic Engagement
Davidson Honors College 020
Nominee: ______
Department: ______
Phone/E-mail: ______
Name, titleand emailof Nominator: ______
______
Briefly describe the type of community engagement work this nominee is involved in:
Explain how this community engagement work is mutually beneficial, e.g. providing benefit to both campus/students and community:
Approximate length of time nominee has done community engagement work:
Other related areas of campus and/or community involvement:
Please write a paragraph explaining why this nominee should be honored with this year’s Outstanding Community Engagement Award: