ICCE  Awards Program

Conducted during the annual ICCE Professional Development Conference luncheon, the ICCE Awards Program acknowledge the contributions of faculty and staff who have enhanced the quality and/or value of continuing education at their institutions. Our most important recognition however, is the ICCE Student of the Year award. This award celebrates the accomplishments of a student nominated by their institution who epitomizes the essence of the nontraditional adult learner.

Award recipients receive free admission and a plaque recognizing their achievement. The Student of the Year also receives a $500 stipend.  Nomination forms are due February 15, 2012.

Recognition categories and Award criteria

Student of the Year
The ICCE Student of the Year may be either an undergraduate or a graduate student at an ICCE member institution. Criteria for the nominees include:

• Campus status as a nontraditional, adult student. Since the criteria for being considered an adult or nontraditional student will vary form campus to campus, the student must meet the criteria of the nominating campus.

• Academic achievement of a minimum of a “B” average or 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.            
• Volunteer or other service to campus and/or community; leadership or membership in campus organizations; service in student government, nontraditional or adult student groups; and/or tutoring other students needing assistance.
• Personal characteristics which have helped the nominee overcome challenges to attend and/or complete an educational objective, e.g. associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree.  This criterion should illuminate the effort of nominated students in the light of their achievement and service activities.
• Graduation or near graduation during the spring semester of the award year.
• A letter of support from the chief continuing education officer.

Click here to download a nominating form.

Faculty Member of the Year
Nominees for this award must be employed as a faculty member of at ICCE-member institution.  Criteria for the nominees include:

• Service to nontraditional student for a period of no less than five years with at least three at an ICCE-member institution.
• Teaching experience need not have been restricted to work with nontraditional students.
• Teaching need not have been full-time, but must have been reasonably continuous; that is, at least one term per academic year.
• If teaching service is not continuous, gaps should be noted on the form.
• Teaching service may have been in the form of credit or noncredit instruction, or both.
• All forms of service to nontraditional students should be included in the nomination, such as advising, chairing committees, planning conferences, and activity in professional organizations that serve nontraditional students.
• The nomination must be supported with brief letters of recommendation from the nominee’s department chair or academic dean and the chief continuing education officer.

Click here to download a nominating form.

Support Staff Member of the Year
Nominee will be an hourly-paid support staff employee of a continuing education unit at an ICCE member institution.

• Nominee will have worked in the field of continuing education for no less than three years.
• Nominee will have made some outstanding service to continuing education instructors, administrators, or students.
• Nominations must have shown a deep commitment to serving the mission of continuing education.

Click here to download a nominating form.

Professional Staff Member of the Year
The nominee will be a professional staff member of the continuing education unit in an ICCE-member institution, will have worked in the field of continuing education for no less than three years, and will have made some outstanding contribution to the furtherance of continuing education at her/his institution through:

• outstanding service to continuing education students or other nontraditional learners.
• the development of an innovative and successful program that serves a clear education need for nontraditional students, or a substantial career of service to continuing education.
• Nominations must be supported by a letter of recommendation from the nominee’s supervisor and the institution’s chief continuing education officer.

Click here to download a nominating form.

Course of the Year
The ICCE course of the year may either be a credit or noncredit course or program offered by continuing education unit of ICCE-member institution.

• Nominated programs must have been initiated within the past two years.

• Programs must demonstrate that they:

  • Contributed to the enhancement of the continuing education by enhancing the educational opportunities of individuals in the community
  • Provided an innovative or original approach to providing educational programs.
• Nominations must be supported by a letter of recommendation from the chief continuing education officer.

Click here to download a nominating form.

For more information on the ICCE Awards Program, contact Aleza Beverly.

ICCE 2011 Award Winners

 

ICCE 2011 Support Staff Member of the Year Pamela Cook,  Secretary, IPFW Warsaw Center

Nominator: Vicki Bandor Braun, Assistant Executive Director, Continuing Studies, IPFW

View nomination materials here.

ICCE 2011 Faculty Member of the Year
James Gabbard, Adjunct Faculty, Photography

Nominator:  Carol Tanner, Assistant Director of Personal and Professional Development.

View nomination material here.

ICCE 2011 Professional Staff Member of the Year
Deanna Simpkins, Coordinator, Continuing Studies, Indiana Wesleyan Univeristy

Nominator: Brad Oliver, Associate Dean, Indiana Wesleyan University

View nomination material here.

ICCE 2011 Course of the Year
Statstics 301, Purdue University
Instructor: Ellen Gundlach

Nominator: Mickey Latour, Associate Dean for Distance Learning, Purdue Extended Campus, Purdue University

ICCE Student of the Year
Sheri Crawford, General Studies, IPFW

Nominator: Sandy McMurtrie, Academic Adviser, Continuing Studies, IPFW

View nomination material here. 

Profiles of 2010 winners are available here.