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Association Awards Program

The University Professional & Continuing Education Association Award Program recognizes institutional excellence, individual achievement, and contributions to the Association and to the field of continuing higher education. These awards demonstrate the Association's commitment to principles of good professional practice by recognizing and rewarding:

  • extraordinary accomplishments and contributions of individuals and member institutions identified through a peer nomination and selection process, and

  • award winners who demonstrate high standards of professional practice and/or personal achievement.

The Association Awards Program is conducted by UPCEA's Awards and Honors Committee, and includes recognition of both individual and institutional achievement across the UPCEA membership. The Community of Practice Awards Program recognizes both individual and institutional achievement as it relates to the Association's Communities of Practice, and each Community conducts the awards program for its specific interest areas. All award winners are recognized and celebrated at the Association's 2012 Annual Conference.

UPCEA offers the following Association Awards:

If you are ready to fill out your nomination form, you can fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

Association Awards

Nominations for each of the following awards should be submitted on the Association Awards Nomination Form, with the appropriate award indicated at the top of the form.

Nominations for the 2011 Association Awards and the Distinguished Service Key and Certificate Programs must be received by the submissions deadline indicated for each award below. Nomination materials are best submitted collectively in a single packet, although submission of separate pieces is permitted. The Awards Committee submits its recommendations to the UPCEA Board of Directors for approval. Award winners will be notified by late February, and the awards will be presented at the UPCEA Annual Conference in Portland, March 28-30, 2012.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Diversity Leadership Award

Description:The University Professional & Continuing Education Association encourages understanding, appreciation and the celebration of diversity, and the championing of equal access to education -- inclusive of those who identify with different cultures, racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, religious beliefs, and physical disabilities.  The inaugural UPCEA Diversity Leadership Award recognizes an individual or a program representing best practices in promoting the educational success of diverse students.  This award will recognize outstanding accomplishment in one or more of the following areas: research, educational programs and services, administrative practice, or organizational commitment. A key element is demonstrating creative work to advance the academic success, understanding, or quality of life of underrepresented groups. .

Criteria and Eligibility

  • The nominee must be a UPCEA member.

  • The nominee exhibits the criteria listed above.

  • Nominations from subordinates on behalf of superiors from their own institutions are excluded.

Nomination Procedure

  1. Complete the nomination form.

  2. Substantiate why the person, program, or organization warrants nomination.

  3. Provide illustrations of the impact of the work done.

  4. If to support the nomination of a person, provide a current vita or resume.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

Julius M. Nolte Award for Extraordinary Leadership

Description: The Julius M. Nolte Award is the major UPCEA recognition award. It is given to an individual in recognition of unusual and extraordinary contributions to the cause of continuing education on the regional, national, and/or international university level.

Criteria and Eligibility

  • The nominee need not be affiliated with a UPCEA institution.

  • The award is not necessarily given each year, but only when a deserving person appears on the scene who has fulfilled noteworthy assignments, written books of great significance to continuing education, or rendered long and distinguished administrative, legislative or judicial services that have advanced the cause of continuing higher education.

  • Nominations from the potential recipient's own institution or staff are specifically excluded.

Nomination Procedure

  1. Complete the nomination form.

  2. Include supporting statements and recommendations indicating why the individual deserves nomination for the Nolte Award.

  3. Include a current vita of the nominee.

  4. Solicit recommendations from colleagues who can attest to the nominee's qualifications.

Please view the list of past Nolte Award winners.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

Walton S. Bittner Service Citation for Outstanding Service in UPCEA

Description: The purpose of the Walton S. Bittner Service Citation is to express appreciation to a member for outstanding service to continuing education at his/her institution, and service of major significance to UPCEA. The award is not necessarily given each year.

Criteria and Eligibility

  • The nominee must be a member of a UPCEA institution.

  • He/she must have contributed substantially to the development and maintenance of his/her institution and UPCEA through services performed over a period of years.

  • Nominations from subordinates on behalf of superiors from their own institutions are excluded. Nominations by deans and directors on behalf of members of their staff are welcome and encouraged.

Nomination Procedure

  1. Complete the nomination form.

  2. Include supporting statements and recommendations indicating why the individual deserves nomination for the Bittner Award.

  3. Include a current vita of the nominee.

  4. Solicit recommendations from colleagues who can attest to the nominee's qualifications.

Please view the list of past Bittner Citation awardees.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

Adelle F. Robertson Continuing Professional Educator Award

Description: Adelle Robertson served the Association with distinction and dedication, setting an example for those who would follow. The Adelle F. Robertson Professional Continuing Educator Award recognizes professionals who demonstrate similar commitment and promise. The award is not necessarily given each year.

Criteria and Eligibility

  • This award recognizes the scholarship, leadership and contributions to the profession of a person who has entered the profession in the past five to ten years.

  • The nominee must be a UPCEA member.

  • Only one nomination from each region will be considered. The nomination must be submitted by the Regional Chair or Chair of the Region's Awards and Honors Committee.

Nomination procedure

  1. The nomination form must be completed by the Regional Chair or Chair of the Region's Awards and Honors Committee.

  2. Include supporting statements and recommendations indicating why the individual deserves nomination for the Robertson Award.

  3. Include a current vita of the nominee.

  4. Solicit recommendations from colleagues who can attest to the nominee's qualifications.

Please view the list of past Robertson awardees.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature

Description: The Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Higher Education recognizes the author and publisher of an outstanding work of continuing higher education literature. It is given in memory of Phillip E. Frandson, Dean of Extension, University of California, Los Angeles, and association President, 1977-1978. The Frandson Award Committee encourages submissions of books published during 2011 that are important to the theory or practice of continuing higher education in American colleges and universities.

Download Frandson Award Flyer (PDF)

Criteria and Eligibility


The Frandson Book Award will be presented to the author(s) of a book or monograph which best satisfies the following criteria:

  1. The work is published in 2011.

  2. The work is important to the theory or practice of continuing higher education in American colleges and universities.

  3. The work exemplifies originality and a superior quality of prose in the English language.

  4. Examples of eligible content include:

    • Management and leadership in continuing higher education
    • Adult education and innovative instructional strategies
    • Adults as learners
    • Distance education and instructional design
    • Marketing and/or financial management for continuing higher education,
    • Examination of the future of continuing higher education

Nomination Procedure

  1. Nominations are invited from authors, editors, publishers, and individuals.

  2. Please send one copy of the nominated work to each member of the review committee (names and addresses are listed on the right). Works not sent to each committee member and the chair may be disqualified.

Nominated books must be received by December 1, 2011. If you have a book appropriate for nomination that will be published between November 15, 2009 and December 31, 2009, please contact the committee chair about possible late submission.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

 

UPCEA Excellence in Teaching Award

Description: The UPCEA Excellence in Teaching Award is presented to individuals who have provided outstanding teaching, course development, mentoring of students, and service to continuing education. This award recognizes those who have made significant contributions to credit or noncredit programs and who have provided inspirational teaching to continuing education students.

Eligibility

  1. The nominated individual must have been employed by and contributed to the instruction of a continuing education program of a current UPCEA member institution.

  2. The recipient of this award must be able to be present at the UPCEA awards ceremony held at the UPCEA 2012 Annual Conference in Portland. It is expected that the nominating institution will cover travel expenses for the award recipient; however, the registration fee to attend UPCEA's Annual Conference will be waived for the award recipient.

Criteria

  1. Evidence of commitment to continuing education.

  2. Outstanding teaching and mentoring of students - teaching may be defined to include work with students at any level and in a wide variety of settings; teaching effectiveness includes the ability to meet student learning objectives and evidence of a student-centered approach; evidence of superior student mentoring should illustrate the nominee's concern for student development beyond the normal expectations for advising.

  3. Innovative course, program, and/or curriculum development -- extent to which courses or programs generated by the individual have been new, creative, or innovative.

  4. Exemplary contributions to the institution and the profession.

Nomination Procedure

Nomination must be made by a professional member of UPCEA and will include:

  1. Narrative statement of not more than three pages, listing specific reasons why the nominee is worthy of this award. Evidence of outstanding achievements may include, but is not necessarily limited to:
    • Brief history indicating the nominee's long-term commitment and contribution to the institution's continuing education program
    • Specific courses or programs the nominee has developed, coordinated, and/or taught
    • Audiences served by this individual
    • Effectiveness in teaching and mentoring of students
    • Ability to meet student learning objectives
    • How the work of this individual has brought credit or recognition to the institution, profession, or community
    • Other awards received by this individual, including recognition by the institution

    • Any national, regional, state, or local leadership achievements of the nominee (include offices held, committee assignments, etc.)

  2. Current vita of nominee
  3. Summary of student evaluations
  4. Three to five letters of support from informed individuals who can attest to the nominee's accomplishments. (e.g., dean/director of continuing education, program administrators, teaching colleagues, department chair, former students)

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

UPCEA Research and Scholarship Award

Description: This award emphasizes the value of research and the resulting body of literature as an essential characteristic of the profession of continuing higher education. It is also intended to encourage and stimulate the research efforts of UPCEA members.

The UPCEA Research and Scholarship Award recognizes either 1) significant new research with implications for professional practice in the field of continuing higher education, or 2) an individual UPCEA member whose long-term commitment to the conduct of exemplary research has made a significant contribution to the literature and professional practice in the field of continuing higher education. Up to two awards may be given each year.

Eligibility

A nominated research project must have been conducted at a UPCEA member institution and completed within the last two years, with findings either published or accepted for publication. A nominated individual researcher must be a member of a UPCEA institution. Research may be quantitative, qualitative, or historical.

Criteria

Research Project: The nominated project will excel in the following areas: 1) Research findings have strong potential to improve professional practice in the field of continuing higher education; 2) The research project is informed by and builds upon existing literature; 3) The research project represents the highest qualities of scholarship.

Individual Researcher: The nominee will have excelled in the following areas: 1) Produced extensive writings and generated research findings, consistent with the criteria stated above for a research project; 2) Encouraged and enabled graduate students and professional staff to become actively involved in research for the field; 3) Continuously and proactively sought to encourage the implementation of research findings in the practice of continuing higher education.

Nomination Procedure

Nominations for the Research and Scholarship Award must be submitted by a professional staff member of a UPCEA institution. Completed nominations shall include the following:

  1. A narrative statement of not more than three pages, detailing specific ways in which the nomination meets the criteria above, including a description of how the research was funded.

  2. In the case of a research project, a written summary of the research findings.

  3. Current vita of individual nominee or lead researcher(s) for the research project.

  4. Three to five letters of support from informed individuals.

Selection Committee

The selection committee, to be appointed by the Chair of the UPCEA Awards and Honors Committee, will include at least two representatives of the Research Community of Practice and at least two members of the UPCEA Awards and Honors Committee.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

Outstanding Continuing Education Student Awards

Description: These two awards honor nontraditional students who are enrolled in either credit or non-credit programs at UPCEA member institutions, for achievement of excellence in pursuit of continuing education. The awards are not necessarily given annually.

Presentation of Award: In order for nominated students to be eligible to receive the award, they must be present at the awards ceremony in Toronto. The registration fee to attend UPCEA's Annual Conference will be waived for the award recipient. It is expected that the nominating institution should provide travel expenses for the student, however, UPCEA may provide some financial support for conference expenses and travel of the awardee should the institution not be able to provide support.

Criteria and Eligibility

Credit Students

  • The nominee must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a UPCEA member institution within the past 12 months, or have graduated no more than one year prior to the time the award is granted.

  • The nominee must be an adult student who has met the challenge of an unconventional educational background and become an inspiration to others through individual growth accomplished in pursuit of his/her educational goals.

  • The nominee shall have effectively managed multiple/significant commitments and responsibilities while engaged in his/her education.

  • The nominee must be 25 years of age or older.

Non-credit Students

  • The nominee must be enrolled in a non-credit program at a UPCEA member institution within the past 12 months.

  • The nominee must be an adult student who has achieved excellence in pursuit of his/educational goals.

  • The nominee shall have effectively managed multiple/significant commitments and responsibilities while engaged in his/her education.

  • The nominee must exemplify the best characteristics and standards of the non-degree student.

Nomination Procedure

Each regional awards committee chair will complete the nomination form for that region's awards candidate, and include the following supporting materials to clearly demonstrate how the student meets the criteria and eligibility for this award

  • Two letters of nomination or support from informed individuals; e.g., an academic department chair or faculty member; dean or director of continuing education; president or vice president of the nominee's institution. The letters must address the nominee's accomplishments.

  • A written statement from the nominee describing his or her achievements with an emphasis on the challenges met while enrolled as a student.

  • Documentation of the student's excellence in achievements, including material such as grade point average, official transcripts, CEUs, student activities, university involvement, community contributions, employment, job performance, and so forth.

  • A current vita of the nominee.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

UPCEA Outstanding Program Awards

Description: These awards honor credit and non-credit continuing education programs (one in each category) at UPCEA member institutions for excellence in achieving their educational objectives. The awards are not necessarily given annually.

Criteria and Eligibility

  • The nominated program must be a credit or non-credit program offered by a UPCEA member institution within the last two years.

  • The program must have completed at least one cycle to be considered.

  • The program must be original in a substantive ways.

  • A description of the program must include a statement explaining how the program objectives were met and a summary of the program evaluations should also be included.

  • The program must demonstrate a contribution to the field of continuing education, which can be replicated by other higher education institutions.

  • The program must be cost effective in a manner consistent with the stated program objectives.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

 

 

UPCEA Distinguished Service Key and Certificate for Retiring Continuing Educators

Description: The presentation of a key and certificate is made to retiring continuing educators who have been active in UPCEA during their career. Members who fit the criteria are retroactively eligible up to and including one year following retirement. Nominations are invited and must be submitted for approval by the UPCEA Executive Committee.

Nomination Procedure

  1. Complete the nomination form.

  2. Include a current vita of the nominee documenting UPCEA service.

To submit an awards nomination, please fill out and submit the award nomination form online.

If you are unable to submit your nomination online, please contact Amy Heitzman, Chief Learning Officer, aheitzman@upcea.edu or call 972-850-9406.

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011

 

  
 
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