2021 Distinguished Community Engagement Award Call for Nominations
Provost John McCarthy invites nominations for this year’s Distinguished Community Engagement Awards for Research and Teaching. This award recognizes individuals within our campus community for their outstanding contributions to community-engaged scholarship and teaching with impacts at the local, regional, national or international level.
At UMass Amherst, engagement creates a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources within a context of partnership and reciprocity. Members of the UMass Amherst campus and community partners collaborate in research, teaching and creative or professional activity in ways that benefit the campus and the academy while at the same time addressing community-defined needs or goals.
Each award recognizes a specific aspect of community engagement:
- Community-Engaged Research Award: Recognizes a faculty member or librarian for a record of community-engaged research, scholarship, and creative activities, in all disciplines and fields, that contributes to the academy, to UMass Amherst and to their community partner organizations.
- Community-Engaged Teaching Award: Recognizes a faculty member or librarian for a record of community-engaged teaching (credit or non-credit) with demonstrated impact in the community and benefits to learners at UMass Amherst
Awards
Award recipients receive a $1000 monetary prize and certificate of merit.
Nominations
Nominations are accepted from any eligible member of the UMass Amherst community and will be evaluated through a two-stage process of ad hoc reviewers and a committee of the Public Engagement and Outreach Council, who will evaluate and collectively select nominations to recommend to the provost, who will make the final determination of awards.
Nomination packages are due by March 26, 2021.
For information on eligibility, nomination procedures and award criteria visit:
www.umass.edu/faculty-development/achieve/distinguished-community-engagement-awards
For questions about the program, contact Mary K. Green at mkgreen@umass.edu.