Provost's Award for Excellence in Outreach & Engagement
The Provost’s Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement is given to honor instructional and administrative faculty members who have made a sustained commitment to working with the community in developing mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships. This award recognizes the scope and impact of the partnership and its impact on both the university and the community.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has acknowledged James Madison University’s community engagement efforts to receive its community engagement reclassification for 2020. This honor recognizes “the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities ... for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.” JMU joins 358 other institutions across the country in the selection process.
Past Recipients
2022
Adrienne Hooker - Associate Professor, School of Media, Arts & Design
2021
Dr. Dara Hall - Executive Director of Teacher Education & Student
2020
Dr. Jennifer PeeksMease - Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies
2019
Dr. Jennifer Almjeld
Associate Professor, Writing Rhetoric and Technical Communication
2018
Dr. Steve Cesawn - Associate Professor, Biology
2017
Dr. Kerry Cresawn - Director, Center for STEM Education and Outreach
2016
Dr. Emily Akerson, Associate Director of Clinical and Interprofessional Programs, IIHHS
2015
Dr. Seán McCarthy - Assistant Professor, Writing Rhetoric and Technical Communication
2014
Dr. Kim Hartzler-Weakley - Director, Office of Children & Youth
2013
Dr. Merle Mast, Professor, Nursing
2012
Dr. Nicholas Swartz - Political Science
2011
Dominic Swayne - Coordinator, External Relations
2010
Dr. Gary R. Kirk - Public Administration
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