Student Award
Frank Newman Leadership Award – recognizes students with financial need and civic leadership potential and provides both financial support and mentorship to help them achieve their academic and civic goals.
“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
Community Engagement Professional Award
Leadership Award for Campus and Community Engagement – Campus Compact has created the Leadership Award for Campus and Community Engagement to highlight the critical and valuable role of the community engagement professional in higher education.
State Campus Compact Awards Programs
State Campus Compact Awards – our State Compact offices 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.
