Civic Engagement Faculty Awards - Call for Nominations

Announced on: Monday, Feb. 16, 2026

Office of Civic Engagement Faculty Awards

Call for Nominations

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 faculty awards:

· Civically Engaged Scholar Award: Recognizes one faculty member who has demonstrated a significant history of community-engaged partnerships, has encouraged high levels of student engagement with the community, and/or has conducted scholarship, teaching, and/or creative activity about significant public issues with documented public-serving results.

· Early Career Scholar Community Engagement Award: Recognizes one faculty member within the first five years of their academic career at Chico State who is 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 Ariane Bélanger-Vincent, Director of Civic Engagement, via email (abelanger-vincent@csuchico.edu) no later than Friday, March 13, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. PDT. 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 Faculty Fellow for Voter Empowerment, the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and Academic Success, one staff representative, and one student representative.

Nominations must include a one page, single-spaced letter from the nominator addressing the following:

· Identifies the award for which you are nominating the nominee;

· Explains how the nominee meets the award criteria, providing specific examples of their civically- and/or community-engaged work;

· Describes the ways the nominee has impacted the university, campus community, surrounding communities, and/or other communities through their work;

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

Questions? Please reach out to Ariane Bélanger-Vincent at abelanger-vincent@csuchico.edu.