Transform Mid-Atlantic actively seeks to recognize excellent service-learning and civic engagement work in our region. Through the annual Transform Mid-Atlantic Awards program, we aim to recognize student, faculty, administrative, and community leaders. Click on each award below for more information on the award and application instructions.
Nominations for the 2023 TMA Awards are open until the extended deadline of Friday, September 8, 2023. Recipients and their nominators will be notified by October. The in-person 2023 Awards Program Ceremony will occur in late November or early December 2023. More details and a save-the-date will be published by the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester!
The nomination process has changed for the 2023 Awards Program and is easier than ever! Please click the button below to access the 2023 TMA Award Nomination Form and to learn more about each award, eligibility for nominations, and required nomination materials.
Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Awards
Eligibility: Faculty, Administration
Required nomination materials: Form, CV, Sample syllabus
Recognizes and honors one faculty member in each of the three higher education sectors (public universities, community colleges, independent colleges and universities) for excellence in the integration of service-learning into the curriculum and impact to students and the community.
Engaged Scholarship Award
Eligibility: Faculty, Graduate Students
Required nomination materials: Form, CV, Example of recently published scholarship
Recognizes outstanding research and scholarly contributions made to the fields of service-learning, experiential learning, and/or community-based participatory research (CBPR) / learning.
Global Citizenship Award
Eligibility: Administration, Faculty, Students, Campus-Community Partnership, Volunteer Office
Required nomination materials: Form & CV
Recognizes one outstanding campus-community partnership that produces measurable impact in both student participants
and the community. Consideration will be given for demonstrated sustainability, reciprocity, and mutual collaboration.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion - Civic & Community Engagement (JEDI-CCE) Award
Eligibility: Administrators, Faculty, Students, Community Partners, Partnerships, Collaborations
Required nomination materials: Form & CV
Recognizes outstanding individuals or campus-community partnership that contribute to the intersection and institutionalization of equity and civic and community engagement, within the culture of the campus and community, involving community voice in the development of partnerships and producing measurable impact in both faculty and student participants and the community.
Transformational Leadership Award
Eligibility: Administrators, Faculty, Elected officials, Community leaders, Nonprofit professionals
Required nomination materials: Form & CV
Recognizes and honors one individual for outstanding contributions to the institutionalization of equity and community engagement by inspiring a culture of service/civic and community engagement on their campus, organization, and/or community and involving community voice in the development of sustainable partnerships and collaboration. This award honors a person who has contributed to the overall success of campus-community collaboration and advanced community engagement at their university or organization.
Transformational Partnership Award
Eligibility: Campus-Community Partnerships
Required nomination materials: Form, CV(s) of partnership lead(s), Overview of partnership's mission & outcomes
Recognizes one outstanding campus-community partnership that produces measurable impact in both student participants and the community. Consideration will be given for demonstrated equity, sustainability, reciprocity, and mutual collaboration. Partnerships include those between higher education institutions and non-profit organizations, community-based organizations, K-12 schools, government agencies, international partners, etc.
Transformational Student Leadership Award
Eligibility: Student or student group
Required nomination materials: Form, CV(s), information of all students in group & group's mission and outcomes (if nomination is for student group)
Recognizes and honors one student or student group from a TMA member institution for their leadership in and commitment to service projects that extend beyond any co-curricular requirements or course-based service-learning. Priority is given to groups that demonstrate their project led to long-term, equitable and sustainable community impact.
William E. "Brit" Kirwin Engaged Leader Award
Eligibility: Community Leaders
The William E. "Brit" Kirwin Engaged Leader Award recognizes and honors an individual for his or her lifetime contributions as a systemic-change agent. This individual has helped to shape policy to advance communities, ultimately elevating the quality of collective life throughout the Maryland-DC-Delaware region and beyond. Recipients of this award are selected by the TMA Board.
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