National + Regional Awards

The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) each year.

Honorees 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.

Deadline for nominations is usually in May each year.

The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.

This award is available to early career faculty (pre-tenure or early career at institutions with renewable contracts). The award is presented by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), University of Massachusetts Boston.

Deadline for nominations is usually in April each year.

The Richard Guarasci and Eduardo J. Padrón Awards for Institutional Transformation recognize institution-wide efforts to address issues of public concern by aligning teaching, research, practice, and values in service of the common good.

Each year Campus Compact will identify up to six recipients. Both four-year and two-year member institutions will be recognized.

The Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award recognizes an exemplary Community Engagement Professional who has demonstrated collaboration with communities focused on transformative change, a commitment to justice-oriented work, and an impact on the larger movement to build ethical and effective community engagement locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The Community Outcomes and Impact Award recognizes excellence in service-learning and community engaged research that advances community outcomes and impacts.

While all SLCE scholarship should contribute to community-based interested parties, this award recognizes research that has had a significant impact on an organization or program, and/or measurably benefited a community.

The Dissertation Award acknowledges and celebrates a dissertation that advances research on service-learning and community engagement through rigorous and innovative inquiry and has the potential for impact on the study and/or practice of service-learning and community engagement, including the communities, cultures, and systems within which it is undertaken.

The Distinguished Career Award acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through a body of work that has broad and deep impact on the study and/or practice of service-learning and community engagement, including the communities, cultures, and systems within which it is undertaken.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award recognizes excellence in research and scholarship that advances diversity, equity, and inclusion in the study and practice of service-learning and community engagement (SLCE).

The purpose of the award is to recognize research that focuses specifically on a) the needs and experiences of diverse constituencies in SLCE; b) practices that promote equity for marginalized or underserved communities; and c) strategies that make SLCE projects – and the field as a whole – more inclusive of diverse communities and perspectives.

The Early Career Award acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through an emerging body of work that has begun to demonstrate broad and deep impact on the study and/or practice of service-learning and community engagement, including the communities, cultures, and systems within which it is undertaken.

The International Research Award recognizes excellence in research and scholarship that advances the study and practice of service-learning and community engagement within and/or across borders and cultures, expanding knowledge on cultural, regional, and national practices in service-learning and community engagement theory and practice, especially work that centers or engages in non-US contexts.

The Public Scholarship Award recognizes excellent interdisciplinary research that has a demonstrable ameliorative impact on pressing public issues with a special focus on the knowledge needs of policymakers and practitioners.

This award recognizes research that generates non-traditional scholarly products, presented in a manner that is widely accessible to targeted audiences and/or the general public. Such work might include policy briefs, program evaluations, white papers, reports, translations of scientific or other scholarly findings, site revitalization plans, concept maps, videos, or other creative products designed to respond to and inform broader publics.

The Publication of the Year Award acknowledges and celebrates the author(s) of a single published scholarly article, book chapter, book, or book series that has had a significant impact on the study and/or practice of service-learning and community engagement, including the communities, cultures, and systems within which it is undertaken.