[Coehd] President’s Distinguished Diversity Award

Dear COEHD Faculty, Below is information on the President’s Distinguished Diversity Award. Faculty, staff, and students may submit their nomination directly to DiversityAwards@utsa.edu<mailto:DiversityAwards@utsa.edu> by February 26, 2021. Please visit the faculty awards site for more information: https://www.utsa.edu/facultyawards/diversity-award/ Questions? Email diversityawards@utsa.edu<mailto:diversityawards@utsa.edu>. President's Distinguished Diversity Award ________________________________ Purpose of Award The university encourages an environment of dialogue and discovery where integrity, excellence, inclusiveness, respect, collaboration and innovation are fostered. In keeping with UTSA Core Values<http://www.utsa.edu/ucm/resources/identity/brand/index.html>;, 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 & 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. All award amounts are listed before taxes. All accomplishments by the nominees should have taken place, or culminated, within the past three academic years (2017-2018 through 2020-2021). Student nominees must be in good academic standing with the university. ________________________________ Timeline 2020-2021 November: Call for nominations FEBRUARY 26, 2021: NOMINATION DEADLINE February/March: Award selection committees review nominations and determine recipients March/April: Award recipients are notified April: Award recipients are formally recognized at the University Excellence Awards Ceremony ________________________________ Nomination Information A Diversity Award review committee will focus on this award and be composed of a diverse group of faculty, staff and students, many of which are previous recipients of the award. Please complete the Nomination Form<https://www.utsa.edu/facultyawards/documents/Diversity-Award-Nomi... and submit it to DiversityAwards@utsa.edu<mailto:DiversityAwards@utsa.edu> by February 26, 2021. -- Liliana Gutierrez, Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs College of Education and Human Development The University of Texas at San Antonio DT Campus: DB 4.226 (210) 458-4480 office [Chat sm]Chat with me on Microsoft Teams!