CMST Program Awards

CMST Undergraduate Student (BA) Awards

Outstanding CMST Student Award

The objective of this award is to recognize the student in the CMST major who has achieved important accomplishments in a variety of areas. Such areas of achievement might include: significant academic achievement, substantial contributions to the department, university, and/or community, as well as maintaining other personal commitments (such as a job, family, etc.). The award should go to the most outstanding CMST student of those graduating, in terms of their collective accomplishments during their time as a major in our program and a student at the University. Therefore, the criteria to be weighed when selecting this award recipient could include any/all of the following:

• Cumulative academic work (cum GPA)
• Achievements within a course or courses
• Department involvement/service, both type and duration
• University involvement/service, both type and duration
• Community involvement/service, both type and duration
• Work history, both type and duration
• Other personal commitments

Outstanding Student Option Awards: Communication and Public Affairs & Organizational Communication

The objective of these awards is to recognize the student who best represents his or her specific option. The primary criterion for this award is academic excellence in the option. The recipients of these awards should have substantial achievements in their major academic work (as opposed to all of their academic work) and any other related option activity deemed noteworthy. The criteria to be weighed when selecting the award recipients could include any/all of the following:

• Cumulative option/major academic work (major GPA).
• Performance in several classes central to the option.

Civic Engagement Award

This award recognizes CMST students who took initiative in or contributed to creating interest and/or spreading awareness of issues related to civic engagement. The recipient should be nominated by faculty based on the following criterion from the board:

Excellence in promoting civic engagement on campus and/or the community.

CMST Graduate Student (MA) Awards

Outstanding CMST Graduate Student

• GPA (Program)
• Teaching performance/graduate assistant performance/other relevant university activities or involvement
• Contributions to the department/university
• Peer/faculty relationships

Outstanding Thesis/Project

• Rigor of the project/thesis (e.g., extensiveness of method, developmental requirements)
• Contribution to the discipline

Outstanding Teaching Associate

• Teaching evaluations (documented)
• Faculty evaluations
• Other relevant supporting information re: teaching
• Length of time teaching
• Difficulty/types/variety of classes taught GPA