Faculty, staff, community partners and students may all make nominations, consisting of brief narrative (maximum 2 pages) addressing the nominee’s achievements. Student work may be included in nominations of students or faculty. CELO staff will work with nominees to provide supporting materials for review as appropriate.
DEADLINE FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS: March 3rd, 2025
AWARDS
1. Outstanding Faculty Awards
There are two faculty awards recognizing the outstanding use of community-engaged learning pedagogy in UVM courses:
• the Lynne Bond Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award; or
• the Outstanding New Community-Engaged Learning Faculty Award.
“New” faculty have generally been teaching community-engaged courses for less than 5 years at UVM, but nominated faculty can be considered for either award as appropriate.
Criteria: Any instructor (of any rank) teaching a designated service learning (SL) or civic learning (CL) course at UVM may be nominated for a CELO Faculty Award. The review committee will consider the following in reviewing the nomination letters & supporting materials:
- Effective collaboration with community partners in developing mutually beneficial projects or service
- Successful integration of the experiential component so that it fulfills academic learning goals
- Effective use of assignments that enable students to prepare for and learn from the service component (e.g. critical reflection)
- Commitment to recognizing diverse perspectives as necessary to effective community engagement
- Demonstrated commitment to community-engaged teaching & learning
- Demonstrated commitment to UVM's Our Common Ground and land grant mission
2. Outstanding Community Partner Award:
This award recognizes outstanding community partner participation in community-engaged learning at UVM. Nominees may have worked with students through a designated SL or CL course, a faculty-mentored community-based research project, or a service-learning internship (associated with a designated SL internship course).
Criteria: The review committee will consider the following in reviewing nominations:
- The community partner’s active and effective collaboration in the development, design, implementation and/or evaluation of the service-learning project(s) or activities.
- The opportunity for learning provided by the community partner to UVM students and faculty.
- The community partner’s commitment to collaborating with UVM students and faculty
SUBMIT A SERVICE-LEARNING AWARD NOMINATION.
To view past award winners, click here.
Questions? Email celo@uvm.edu or call 656-3853.