Call for Nominations - Office of Civic Engagement Faculty Awards

Announced on: Monday, Mar. 24, 2025

The Office of Civic Engagement Faculty Awards acknowledge and celebrate civically- and community-engaged teaching, scholarship, and creative activity. In particular, the awards recognize engagement that centers community partnerships, collaborations, and action-oriented work that produces public-serving results.

The office is accepting nominations for two awards:

Civically Engaged Scholar Award: Recognizes up to 2 faculty members who have demonstrated a significant history of community-engaged partnerships, has encouraged high levels of student engagement with community, and/or conducts scholarship, teaching, and/or creative activity about significant public issues with documented public-serving results.

Early Career Community Engagement Award: Recognizes up to 2 faculty members within the first 5 years of their academic career who are pursuing public-serving, community-engaged teaching, scholarship, and/or creative activity.

Awardees receive $500 in professional development funds. Past awardees (not including those who have received an honorable mention) are ineligible to receive the same award again.

Nomination Process and Requirements:

Nominations must be submitted to Amy Magnus, Director of Civic Engagement, via email (ammagnus@csuchico.edu) no later than Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 5pm PST. All faculty (Tenured/Tenure-Track/Lecturers) are eligible for the awards based on the criteria described above. Anyone (including students, faculty colleagues, staff, and administrators) is welcome to nominate a faculty member for either award. The award selection committee will be comprised of the Director of Civic Engagement, the Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and Academic Success, one past awardee for each award category, and one student representative.

Nominations must include the following:

A letter of nomination addressing the following:

Clearly identifies the award for which you are nominating the nominee

Explains how the nominee meets the description of the award for which you are nominating them, providing and describing specific examples of their civically- and/or community-engaged work

Ways the nominee has impacted the university, campus community, surrounding communities, and/or other communities through their work

Optional: Please link to any of the nominee's community engagement activities they might have in Collaboratory.

Letters must be no longer than one page, single spaced.

Questions? Please reach out to Amy Magnus at ammagnus@csuchico.edu.