About the Outreach Awards

The purpose of the Distinguished Academic Outreach Awards is to recognize and encourage superlative individual achievement in outreach as an incentive to further community engagement on the part of the academic enterprise. Achievement is measured in terms of contribution toward the Outreach mission:

UMass Amherst Outreach engages the university with the community in economic, social, cultural, environmental, and educational issues. Outreach applies the teaching, research, and knowledge resources of the university with benefit to the public throughout the Commonwealth, nation, and world.

In recognizing excellence in engaged scholarship, the University of Massachusetts Amherst joins other universities that demonstrate commitment to the social, geographic, economic, cultural, and environmental betterment of the communities they serve.

On 2006-2007, the Division of Outreach will provide up to three awards, two to members of the academic community at the university and one to a community partner. The awards are:

Distinguished Outreach Teaching Award,
Distinguished Outreach Research Award, and
Distinguished Community Partner Award.

The Teaching and Research Awards are open to members of the faculty and professional staff at UMass Amherst. The Community Partner Award is open to a non-university affiliated individual who has played a significant positive role in a partnership with the university.

Selection Process

Nominationas for the 2007-2008 awards will be due in late February, 2008. Please check back to this space for details after January 1, 2008.