Chapter Awards

Overall Chapter Awards

Overall Chapter Awards recognize exemplary leaders, chapters and accomplishments spanning anytime from September 2023 – September 2024. These awards will be announced during the ACPA Awards Ceremony during ACPA25.

Nomination Deadline: 1 October 2024
To submit a nomination, please email all award requirements to  Jeremy Brown, Coordinator for Chapters & Divisions, at [email protected].

OUTSTANDING MEMBERSHIP AWARD

The goal of this award is to recognize a practice or successful strategy that advances the recruitment or retention of your chapter’s membership, and/or enhancing services to members to foster significant involvement. You may nominate 1 membership strategy or service per chapter.

1. Nomination letter (2 Pages Max) Throughout the timeframe listed above, please give detailed reasons for how the origins, development, and advancement of this membership strategy or service made significant contributions to your chapter & membership by:
   1. Advancing ACPA’s and/or your chapter’s core values, strategic plans, & goals.
   2. Creating new ongoing benefits to your division & membership.
2. Supplemental Documents – Include any supplemental documents to support meeting the criteria (3 Pages Max)
3. Contact Information – Nominee & nominator contact info (name, job title, college, phone, email, role in division)

HIGHER EDUCATION THOUGHT LEADER

Your chapter can recognize one individual or organization that lives or works in your chapter’s boundaries and is considered a thought leader. A “thought leader” is an individual or organization that educators recognize as one of the foremost authorities in selected areas of specialization, resulting in the person or organization being the go-to individual or organization for said expertise.

Ask yourself, who has contributed to higher education through the development of innovative ideas, creation and dissemination of knowledge, and/or is an expert who is (or will be) sought after to solve problems in higher education?

Examples:

• Indiana may nominate someone like George Kuh for being the foremost thought leader on student engagement.
• Missouri may nominate The International Center on Supplemental Instruction for their work conducted on advancing learning support.

You may nominate 1 thought leader per chapter. This could include individuals in any category. A graduate student may have developed an innovative way to reduce alcohol use on campus. A doctoral student could have developed a breakthrough theory on student development for their dissertation research.

How your chapter nominates this individual or organization is up to your chapter. We suggest working with your executive board and conference committees to generate ideas.

1. Nomination letter (2 Pages Max) Please give detailed reasons for how your thought leader made significant contributions to higher education, keeping in mind:
   1. Development of innovative ideas and/or programs.
2. Supplemental Documents –Include any supplemental documents to support meeting the criteria (3 Pages Max)
3. Contact Information –Nominee & nominator contact info (name, job title, institution, phone, email, role)
4. Descriptive Brief – A brief description of the individual or organization’s area of expertise. (Used when introduced at convention.) Example: George Kuh for the Indiana Chapter for his work in student engagement.

Individual Chapter Awards

Individual Chapter Awards recognize exemplary leaders, scholars, programs, institutions, and initiatives who contribute to the goals and mission of their respective chapters. The management of each chapters awards process is coordinated independently by each Chapter, so please refer to the awards directorate member (or a similar role) in each Chapter for details on nominations for each award. Please note that awards and award titles and criteria may change from year to year. 

Award recipients in these categories are usually announced in individual directorate open business meetings and/or designated receptions.

For questions, please contact [email protected].

North Carolina College Personnel Association

• President’s Award
• Outstanding Service in Support of the Profession
• Program of the Year Award
• Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award
• Outstanding New Professional Award

South Carolina College Personnel Association

Service Awards

• Joseph O. Nixon Award for Chief Student Affairs Officer
• Clarice W. Johnson Outstanding Professional Award
• Walter T. Cox New Professional Award
• Carol Eden-Epps Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• Joseph E. Heyward Humanitarian Award
• Paul P. Fidler Bridge Builder Award
• Charles Witten Service Award
• SCCPA Support Staff Award

Programming Awards

• Award for Programming at a Public Institution with 7500 or More Students
• Award for Programming at a Public Institution with Less Than 7500 Students
• Harry B. Shucker Private Institution Award
• Art Hartzog Award for Programming at a Two-Year Institution or Technical College

Written Awards

• Outstanding Professional Paper
• Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
• Hilda F. Owens Contribution to Knowledge in the Field