ACPA Overall Commissions 2023 Awards Nomination Form

2023 ACPA Overall Commission Awards Nominations Form

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.
Overall Commissions Awards Nominations Form

ACPA Excellent Contribution to the ACPA Strategic Priorities Award

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

ACPA has identified 6 strategic goals: Career Development, Professional Development; Leadership in Higher Education, Social Justice, Research and Scholarship and Association Performance and Excellence. In addition, ACPA has more recently focused on racial justice and decolonization, hoping to specifically target efforts toward reducing the oppression of communities of color at the intersections of their identities, knowing that all oppressions are linked and that the work is ongoing. The purpose of the Excellence in Contributions to the ACPA Strategic Priorities is to highlight the work done by an entity in furthering one goal in a substantial way or affording time and attention to multiple initiatives focusing on multiple strategic goals.
Commission Name*
Commission Chair*

First NameLast Name
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email Address*
example@example.com
Nominator Phone Number*

Area CodePhone Number
If selected as the award recipient. who will represent the commission to receive the award?*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Career Development*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Professional Development*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Equity and Inclusion*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Research and Scholarship*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Leadership in Higher Education*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Association Performance and Excellence*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Membership Recruitment and Retention*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Globalization*
Describe your commission's work towards meeting the ACPA Strategic Priority: Racial Justice and De-Colonization*

Excellence in Research and Scholarship

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.

Research and scholarship have long been the life-blood of ACPA. This award focuses specifically on the efforts made by a commission to engage in specific research and or scholarship that furthers the knowledge used by practitioners in service to students, to staff, or to the academy. Submissions might highlight white-papers, research projects, journal articles, and or books, just to name a few possibilities.
Commission Name*
Commission Chair*

First NameLast Name
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email*
example@example.com
Nominator Phone Number*

Area CodePhone Number
If selected as the award recipient. who will represent the commission to receive the award?*
Describe the research efforts executed by the commission. *
Describe any publications edited or written by the commission or commission members.*

Distinguised Commission Directorate Member

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.

This award presents a commissions with the opportunity to recognize an individual who consistently goes above and beyond to provide leadership within the group. An outstanding directorate member is one who contributes something sustainable and lasting for the group; or rises to the level of being a leader among leaders, pulling a group together in a substantive way.
Commission Name*
Commission Chair*

First NameLast Name
Name of Directorate Body Nominee*

First NameLast Name
Directorate Board Nominee Email Address*
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Directorate Board Nominee Institution of Employment*
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email Address*
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Nominator Phone Number

Area CodePhone Number
Describe what the directorate member has accomplished for the commission.*
Describe any contributions the directorate member has made to ACPA that are not directly related to commission work.*

Distinguished Commission Chair

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.

This award recognizes excellence in leadership of a commission. Excellence can come in a variety of forms. The following list is designed to assist nominators in identifying what distinguishes their chair. It is not exhaustive. Distinguished chairs may: 1) provide strong administrative leadership to the group that allows the group to understand the tasks before the group and work both independently as well as collaboratively to accomplish tasks; 2) be visionary, looking to what could be, not what is, and rallying the commission membership to work toward the goal; 3) provide strong mentorship of members within the commission and or within ACPA; and 4) strategic in their efforts, guiding commission members to accomplish efforts designed to stabilize or grow the commission.
Commimssion Name*
Commission Chair*
Commission Chair Email Address*
example@example.com
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email Address*
example@example.com
Nominator Phone Number*

Area CodePhone Number
Describe what the commission chair has accomplished for the commission. Include information on leadership, how goals were met, organization, how accomplishments were connected to the ACPA Strategic Priorities, etc. *
Describe any contributions the commission chair member has made to ACPA that are not directly related to commission work.*

Excellence in Programming and Professional Development Nominations

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.

This award recognizes efforts of an entity to foster programs and developmental opportunities that enrich the professional experiences of ACPA members and or invited student affairs and other academic participants. Activities that might be highlighted include, but are not limited to:
- Hosting regional, web-based, national pre-conference, or national series programs in an area pertinent to the professional lives of participants.
- Engaging in initiatives that foster an understanding or highlight the importance of an issue or topic
- Serving as a thought leadership team regarding a facet of student affairs practice or process.
Commission Name*
Commission Chair*
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email Address*
example@example.com
Nominator Phone Number*

Area CodePhone Number
If selected as the award recipient, who will represent the commission to receive th award?*
Discuss the various ways in which this commission has excelled in programming and professional development this year. Examples could include webinars, conferences, etc.*

Overall Distinguished Commission

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.

Commissions come in a variety of sizes, are varied in longevity and have different resource bases. A distinguished commission is one that can work with the resources it has at its disposal and demonstrates distinguished leadership by providing balanced, innovative, and sustainable products, projects and or services within or across the commissions and to ACPA.
Commission Name*
Commission Chair*
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email Address*
example@example.com
Nominator Phone Number*

Area CodePhone Number
Describe how your commission has contributed to the ACPA Strategic Priorities.*
Describe how your commission has contributed in research and scholarship.*
Describe the commission programming and professional development.*
Describe any innovation(s) made by the commission.*
Describe how your commission has addressed sustainable commission elements such as succession planning, communication, products and services, and effectiveness.*
Any additional items you would like to share about commission accomplishments not previously asked about?*

Excellence in Innovation

The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, 1 November 2022.

All nominations will appear as typed in the form. Please review before clicking submit.

The award for Excellence in Innovation recognizes a singular effort that is innovative in terms of process, product or service within student affairs.
Commission Name*
Commission Chair*
Name of Nominator*

First NameLast Name
Nominator Email Address*
example@example.com
Nominator Phone Number*

Area CodePhone Number
Describe the innovation spearheaded by the commission.*
Describe how this innovation support the commission's activities.*
Describe how this innovation supports ACPA's strategic priorities.*
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