UConn PAECES Awards:
- Community Partner Award.
Eligibility: This award is open to community members who, in collaboration with University of Connecticut members, have demonstrated significant contributions to the local community, state, nation, or world through distinguished community-engaged scholarship. Community partners who have received this award in the past are not eligible, and self-nominations are not accepted.
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
- Excellence in Community Partner Engagement Award: The Community Partner Excellence Award recognizes outstanding community partners whose work alongside a university partner has documented impacts on focused communities. Recognizing reciprocal partnerships is at the heart of the field, and this award recognizes community partners whose collaborative work with a university has led to improving the quality of life in a tangible way.
Eligibility: Nominees can be from nonprofit, public agencies (federal or tribal governments, state governments, or local government, which includes school districts or other special purpose districts), and non-governmental organizations. They should be engaged in a partnership with a university from any accredited institution of higher education
Campus Compact
Excellence in Community-Engaged Partnerships Award recognizes outstanding programs and initiatives that demonstrate meaningful partnership with communities to to address complex social issues and further equity, justice, and prosperity for all. Programs that receive the award exemplify core the principles of effective civic and community engagement—reciprocity, collaboration, transdisciplinarity, and sustainability—and address specific social issues, such as public health, violence prevention, economic development, K-12 education, climate change, or houselessness