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Each year, this award recognizes one instructor who has demonstrated exemplary integration of academic service-learning in their courses. The award winner will be honored at the Honor the Best ceremony in May with a plaque and award check of $500, less applicable taxes.

Qualifications

To qualify for the award, the nominee:

• Must be an academic or administrative faculty, LOA, or contingent faculty on appointment with the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno.
• Must have taught a designated service-learning course.

A nominee must demonstrate:

• Exemplary, and often innovative, integration of academic service-learning in their courses.
• Demonstrated an awareness of the community partner’s needs and was able to balance service-learning activities with course and student objectives.
• Used critical reflection to help students process and learn from their service-learning experiences.
• Designed an academically relevant service-learning experience for students to gain:
  
  • Further understanding of course content
  • A broader appreciation of the discipline/s
  • An enhanced understanding of civic engagement

Nomination guidelines

A completed nomination form must be submitted by March 5, which includes a summary of how the nominee’s work qualifies them for nomination based on the above qualifications.