Learning Community Awards

Contact: Kyle Holtman,  holtman@iastate.edu

Nomination Deadline: March 27, 2023

The Learning Communities Advisory Committee is pleased to announce several awards for exemplary contributions to Iowa State University Learning Communities. We are now accepting nominations for this year’s awards, which will be announced prior to the start of the 23-24 academic year. Please share this information with others who may be interested in submitting award nominations. Self-nominations or nominations by others are welcome. We hope you will take the time to honor contributions to learning communities at Iowa State!

INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM AWARD

This award will honor members of the Iowa State community who have made significant strides to advance and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within learning communities. Examples of this work might occur within areas such as curriculum, peer mentor recruitment, training, and supervision, co-curricular activities, coordination of multiple facets of the learning community experience, research, and scholarship, retention, or any other contribution that has extended the boundaries of learning communities at Iowa State. Nominees for the Equity Award may include individuals, specific partners in a learning community, or the entire staff of a learning community.
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This award will honor members of the Iowa State community who have made new and creative contributions to learning communities. The primary criterion for the award is innovation; i.e., the introduction of new developments that have extended the horizons of learning communities at Iowa State and enhanced learning for our students. Areas of innovation might include novel curricular plans, effective cross-disciplinary collaborations, creative integration of students’ social and intellectual lives, imaginative responses to student needs, effective coordination of multiple facets of the learning community experience, or any other contribution that has extended the boundaries of learning communities at Iowa State.
Nominees for the Outstanding Innovation Award may include individuals, specific partners in a learning community, or the entire staff of a learning community. Supporting materials can include course syllabi, promotional materials, summaries of student evaluations, student or colleague commendations, and/or any other evidence that supports the nomination.
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This award will honor an individual or a research team that has significantly contributed to the scholarship of learning communities. Scholarship may include publications that are technical papers, conference proceedings, journal articles, capstones, theses, or dissertations that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted and in review during the past two years. Awards will be presented to both faculty/staff and graduate students.
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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

This award will recognize an individual ISU faculty or staff who has demonstrated outstanding performance in learning community coordination early in their professional careers. Eligibility: ISU faculty or staff who have a minimum of two years and not more than five years of work as a learning community coordinator at Iowa State University. Recipients must be working with learning communities at the time of the award ceremony in May. A learning community coordinator may receive this award only once. Self-nominations will be accepted.
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This award will honor an individual who has significantly contributed to the advancement of learning communities at Iowa State University.
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This award will honor an individual in the Iowa State community who has demonstrated the spirit of learning communities through collaboration.
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This award will honor an individual faculty member who has significantly engaged with a learning community at Iowa State University. Examples of engagement might include teaching courses that engage LC students; intentionally linking assignments with LC courses; sponsoring field trips; hosting co-curricular experiences; demonstrated development of community among students; peer mentor development; etc.
Please note that this award is not intended for faculty/instructors serving as primary LC coordinators.
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DEPARTMENT OR OFFICE AWARD

This award will honor an individual department or office that has partnered with and supported learning community initiatives at Iowa State University.
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