From: Cynthia Arreola <cynthia.arreola@utsa.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:19 AM
To: Office of Inclusive Excellence <InclusiveExcellence@utsa.edu>
Subject: President's Distinguished Diversity Awards- Deadline Extended to March 5

Dear Colleagues,

I want to take a moment to encourage each of you to help us promote the President’s Distinguished Diversity Awards among your departments. We have extended the deadline to March  5^th.

In keeping with UTSA Core Values, the President’s Distinguished Diversity Awards (PDDA) are annual awards that bestow the highest level of recognition to individuals or groups for work that helps the UTSA community think about and practice diversity and inclusion in creative and collaborative ways. The awards especially seek to recognize efforts to engage students in cross-cultural activities to demonstrably extend their knowledge of communities different from their own and/or to enhance their multicultural competence for working with diverse communities at UTSA, San Antonio, Texas, and beyond. In this sense, we envision the awards to not simply reflect and encourage service to our diverse community, although doing so is sufficient for nomination. Ideally, the awards will also advance UTSA’s academic mission to produce multiculturally experienced community members who then become the country’s multiculturally skilled and inclusive professionals and leaders.

Recipients will receive their award alongside the President’s Distinguished Achievement Awards at the annual University Excellence Awards ceremony held in April.

Award Criteria and Eligibility

Faculty and Staff – Two awards will be given. One award of $1,000 will recognize any individual faculty/staff member. Another award of $1,000 per person (up to $5,000) will recognize a group of 10 or fewer faculty and/or staff members from any office across the university.

Students – Two awards will be given. One $500 award will recognize an individual student. Another $500 award will recognize a registered student organization.

For more information on the screening process and nomination packet please visit: http://www.utsa.edu/facultyawards/diversity-award/

Nomination Packet materials should be submitted to DiversityAwards@utsa.edu no later than Friday, March 5, 2021. 

Thank you,

Myron R. Anderson, Ph.D.

Vice President for Inclusive Excellence