Awards & Scholarships
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Academic Community Engagement Awards
2014-2019
Guiding Principles
- Graduate Students
- Outstanding & on-going leader for community engagement (local, regional, or global).
- Is a recognized leader with a solid reputation for excellence in civic engagement, service learning, community-based learning, or community-based research.
- Utilizes research outcomes for the purpose of educating a wide audience and giving back to the literature.
- Utilizes what they learn by working with the community as an opportunity to create sustainable practices that ensure active participation and cooperation between UNC and the community.
- Student’s area of expertise is visible and shared to those around them.
- Student’s community engagement relates back to their academic goals.
- Research tied to the student’s expertise is of benefit to the community.
- Enriches learning experiences through active involvement in the community
- Undergraduate Students
- Outstanding & on-going leader for community engagement (local, regional, or global).
- Has made a positive impact on community.
- Utilizes what they learn by working with the community as an opportunity to create sustainable practices that ensure active participation and cooperation between UNC and the community.
- Student’s area of expertise is visible and shared to those around them.
- Enriches learning experiences through active involvement in the community.
- Student’s community engagement relates back to their academic goals.
- If applicable: research tied to the student’s expertise is of benefit to the community.
Past ACE Award Recipients
- 2019
- Community Engaged Undergraduate Finalist: Grace Davis
- Community Engagement - Leadership Award: Ashley Amaro Martinez
- Community Engagement - Academic Award: Malaika Michel-Fuller
- Community Engaged Graduate Scholar Award: Rachel Sprague
- 2018
- Community Engaged Undergraduate Award: Tim Hernández
- Community Engaged Graduate Scholar Award: Rebecca Autrey, Shyanne Heise, Anna Momchilov
- 2017
- Community Engaged Undergraduate Award: Megan Bissell
- Community Engaged Graduate Scholar Award: David Matheson, Savannah Cormier
- 2016
Awards for 2016 were awarded through the inaugural Mountain West Engagement Summit, a partnership with Campus Connect of the Mountain West.
- Engaged Student Award: Deitra Sandy, Red Rocks Community College
- 2015
- Community Engaged Undergraduate Award: Megan Stoneman
- Community Engaged Graduate Scholar Award: Megan Cain, Louise Benke
- 2014
- Community Engaged Undergraduate Award: Megan M. Cain