Faculty Awards
Below is a list of awards for which faculty are eligible, based on their contributions to Community Engagement. We kindly ask for your support in promoting these opportunities and in recognizing the outstanding faculty who are dedicated to fostering meaningful community connections.
Provost’s Awards For Excellence In Community Engagement
We recognize collaborative work by faculty who tackle community challenges. Rooted in the land-grant mission, this award fosters two-way knowledge exchange between the University and communities—locally, nationally, or globally.
Emerging Faculty Research Scholar Award; Angela Bermúdez-Millán
Distinguished Faculty Community Impact Award; Tatiana Andreyeva
Emerging Faculty Community Impact Award and Dan Burkey
Distinguished Faculty Instructor Award
| Institution | Eligibility | Award Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Team | Faculty Team Award—One faculty team award may be given for community-engaged scholarship activities. The team must be multidisciplinary and comprise at least two UConn faculty members from different departments/schools. The team’s focus can be on research, teaching, and/or community impact. |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Instructor (Emerging) | Emerging Instructor Award—One award may be given for early-career achievements in community-engaged instruction (e.g., Service Learning and other pedagogical models for partnering with community stakeholders). |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Instructor (Distinguished) | Distinguished Instructor Award – One award may be given for lifetime, sustained, or career achievements in community-engaged instruction (e.g., Service Learning and other pedagogical models for partnering with community stakeholders). |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Research (Emerging) | Emerging Scholar Research Award—One award may be given for early career-engaged scholarship research (a participative form of research that obtains different perspectives of key stakeholders in research design, theory building, problem-solving, or problem formulation). |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Research (Distinguished) | Distinguished Scholar Research Award – One award may be given for lifetime, sustained, or career achievements in engaged scholarship research (i.e., a participative form of research that obtains different perspectives of key stakeholders in research design, theory building, problem-solving, or problem formulation). |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Community Impact (Emerging) | Emerging Community Impact Award—One award may be given for early-career achievements in addressing critical societal issues that result in impactful, transformational change in communities through activities that align research, practice, and values in service of the common good (e.g., informing life-transformational policy, life-transformative educational experiences, and increasing access to underserved communities). |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty | Faculty Community Impact (Distinguished) | Distinguished Community Impact Award—One award may be given for lifetime, sustained, or career achievements in addressing critical societal issues that result in impactful, transformational change in communities through activities that align research, practice, and values in service of the common good (e.g., informing life-transformational policy, life-transformative educational experiences, or increasing access to underserved communities). |
| UConn- Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement (PAECES) | Faculty/Staff/Community Partner | Institutional Transformation Award | UConn employees (i.e., faculty, deans, staff, or executive) or partners (e.g., UConn Foundation employees, alums, State employees) as individuals or teams. Individuals or units who have received an individual community-engaged scholarship award in the previous five years are not eligible. |
| Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) | Faculty | Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award | (Open to all faculty, regardless of rank and tenure status). |
| Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) | Faculty | Hiram E. Fitzgerald Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award | (Open to scholars representing institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, or public agencies). |
| Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) | Faculty | 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. |
| Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) | Faculty | The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty | 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. |
| Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) | Faculty | The Lynton Award | 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 | Faculty | 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. |
| APLU | Faculty | 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. |