Please review the Student Citizen Leader Award descriptions below

*All awards require a 2.7 cumulative GPA, and for recipients to be in good standing with Longwood University*

Emerging Leader Award

This award recognizes first- and second-year students who demonstrate appreciation for the value of Longwood’s commitment to citizen leadership and exemplify leadership by providing distinguished service to and engagement with the Longwood community. These students show initiative, commitment to growth, and potential for continued involvement and leadership throughout their remaining time at Longwood.

*Award Qualifications: Candidates must be in their first or second year at Longwood University.

Honor & Integrity Award

This award recognizes students who exemplify honorable behavior and embody the virtues of honesty, integrity, duty, good character, and rectitude in their daily lives.

Dr. P Distinguished Contributions Award

This award recognizes a senior student who, throughout their collegiate career, has been a model citizen leader and served as a positive role model for other students. This person will have also displayed outstanding involvement and leadership in campus life and have contributed significantly to the general advancement of the interests of student affairs and Longwood University.

*Award Qualifications: All candidates must be students with one semester or less left at Longwood.

Rotunda Award for Community Building 

This award recognizes a student who has brought together varying segments of the campus community through their strong commitment to relationship building and desire to engage the campus community through meaningful programming.

Joan of Arc Award Visionary Leadership Award

This award recognizes outstanding leadership and commitment to the Longwood community. Through their organizational involvements and campus-wide initiatives, the recipients strive to support the development of a future community of citizen leaders working for the common good of society. These students are innovative, set clear goals for their organizations, and motivate those around them to achieve those goals.

*Award Qualifications: All candidates must have held a leadership position in a student organization this past academic year.

Citizen Leader Award

This award recognizes students who exemplify true citizen leadership by embracing diversity and demonstrating virtue, empathy, generosity, teamwork, social responsibility, and dedication to the common good through their dedication to the campus community and/or contributions to the local area.

*Award Qualifications: All candidates must be a current sophomore, junior, or senior. 

Ellen Masters Award for Significant Service

This award recognizes a student whose behavior embraces civic responsibility and consistent, meaningful service to the community on a local, regional, national, or global level. The recipient has given of their time, talent, and efforts to contribute to the common good.

*Award Qualifications: All service is outside any required responsibilities.

NH "Cookie" Scott Trailblazer Award

This award is given to a student who strives for academic excellence and social justice by encouraging their peers to explore and reflect upon their multiple identities, promoting awareness of greater social inequalities, and addressing social inequities on campus.

*Award Qualifications: All candidates must be a current sophomore, junior, or senior.

Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award
This award recognizes a faculty or staff member who goes above and beyond the expectations of an advisor. The award recipient is an integral part of the organization, serves as an enthusiastic supporter, and shows dedication and commitment to the mission of the organization.

*Award Qualifications: Candidates must be a registered faculty/staff advisor for a student organization for the 2022-2023 academic year and serving as an advisor is not part of their job responsibilities.

Faculty/Staff Citizen Leader Award
This award recognizes faculty and staff members who exemplify what it means to be a citizen leader by employing their character, commitment to values, and sense of civic responsibility/duty to make a significant contribution on behalf of the community for the common good.

Advocate of the Year Award
This award is given to a faculty or staff member who is actively involved with incorporating multicultural elements into their academic curriculum or into the scope of their work at the university. The recipient is a high contributor to the advancement and production of a healthy, inclusive environment at Longwood.

*Award Qualifications: Current Longwood Faculty or Staff member.