UConn PAECES Awards:
- Faculty Team
- Faculty Individual
- Research (Emerging)
- Research (Distinguished)
- Teaching (Emerging)
- Teaching (Distinguished)
- Community Impact (Emerging)
- Community Impact (Distinguished)
Eligibility: All faculty members (tenure track, clinical, in-residence, extension, or research) with at least a 50% appointment at the University who have demonstrated significant individual contributions to the local community, state, nation, or world through distinguished University community-engaged scholarship are eligible for these awards. For these awards, distinguished public engagement directly extends an individual’s university role to the public and non-profit sectors. Individuals who have received a community-engaged scholarship award in previous years are not eligible to receive the award again in the same category or another individual category for five years.
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award (Open to all faculty, regardless of rank and tenure status).
Hiram E. Fitzgerald Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award (Open to scholars representing institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, or public agencies).
The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus Compact member institution) are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good.
The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a full-time, early-career faculty member who connects their teaching, research and service to community engagement.
The Lynton Award emphasizes community-engaged scholarly work across faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement represents an integrated view of faculty roles in which teaching, research, creative activity, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing. It is characterized by scholarly work that benefits the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects the mission of the institution.
APLU
Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award
APLU created the Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award to honor an individual whose career has been dedicated to the service and leadership of public and land-grant universities. Candidates should have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to advancing student success; research and discovery; and community and economic engagement. The award is named after Peter McPherson. president of APLU from 2006-2022.
Public Impact Research (PIR) Award
The APLU Public Impact Research Award recognizes an APLU member that has implemented one or more impressive Public Impact Research (PIR) efforts that have produced exceptional outcomes. PIR is a broad label to describe how university research improves lives and serves society—locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. PIR is a broad and inclusive term encompassing multi-disciplinary research, community-engaged research, research grand challenges, research-practice partnerships, participatory research, translational and use-inspired research, co-production, and other approaches. Criteria for the Award include connection to public need, leveraged resources, evidence of impact, and sustainability. Use the menus below to learn the submission criteria