Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award Application Requirements

Applicant Information

• Resume/CV • Photograph

Narrative Attach a brief narrative (500 words max) addressing the following questions:

1. How has your body of work exemplified effective practices in higher education community engagement?

2. What project, effort, or community partnership are you most proud of? 3. How has your work on specific projects or programs advanced progress toward greater justice, equity,

and full participation? 4. How have you challenged your institution, or higher education more broadly, to do better?

Nomination Letter: Senior Institutional Leader Upload a nomination letter (pdf) from a senior leader in the institution (e.g. dean, vice president, provost, president, chancellor).

Letter of Support: Collaborator Please upload a letter of support (pdf) from a collaborator (community partner, faculty, student, or staff member).

Annotated Artifacts Please upload 1-3 artifacts demonstrating commitment to each of the following areas. Please include with each submitted artifact a narrative annotation that explains how the artifact demonstrates that area of work.

1. Justice-oriented work; evidence of your commitment to integrating and institutionalizing effective practices that promote the principles of equity, full participation, and community as co-educator. Examples: works of scholarship, documentation of community collaborations, documentation of projects engaging and partnering with faculty, documentation of programs that engage students

2. Partnerships; evidence of your commitment to the development of sustainable, effective, ethical partnerships promoting transformative change that advances greater and more equitable participation in the political, economic, social, or cultural dimensions of community and public life. Examples: ongoing work with community members to design, implement, and improve engagement initiatives, recognition of partners as co-educators; evaluation results that show benefits for communities as well as students; support for multifaceted partnerships focused on public issues; participation in or facilitation of research-based collaborations; participation in scholarship engaging with partners in answering community-driven questions.

3. Impact on the larger movement; demonstrate your leadership in developing a campus culture of ethical and effective community engagement through programs, practices, or policies that have had cumulative impact that improved the field of community engagement (locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally) Examples: materials demonstrating the adoption of ethical and effective practices across or beyond an individual campus.