Student Award
Newman Civic Fellows Award - The Newman Civic Fellows Award honors inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated their investment in finding solutions to the challenges that face our communities throughout the country.
“The most important thing an institution does is to prepare a student not for a career, but for a life as a citizen.”
Frank Newman, one of the founders of Campus Compact
Faculty Award*
Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award – recognizes one faculty member each year 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.
“Campus Compact is such a wonderful force for progress in academic service-learning. I really think that we would be nowhere near where we are today in higher education without your efforts.”
Janet Eyler, 2003 Ehrlich Award recipient
State Campus Compact Awards Programs
State Campus Compact Awards – our State Compact affiliates also offer a wide range of awards recognizing student and faculty and staff achievement in these areas.
See also Other Awards of Interest.
*Note on National Faculty Awards for Civic Engagement
For faculty committed to civic and community engagement, there are two major national awards: the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged FacultyAward, from Campus Compact, and the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, from the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE).
Both awards value community collaboration as well as institutional impact and honor engaged work across the faculty roles of teaching, research, and service. We encourage nominations for junior faculty (pre-tenure or early career at institutions with renewable contracts) for the Lynton Award and nominations for senior faculty (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) for the Ehrlich Award. Please share information about the awards with your colleagues. More information about the Lynton Award can be found at www.nerche.org.
