Compact Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award - application open

Campus Compact is now accepting online applications for the 2009 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award.
The deadline is March 20, 2009.

The Ehrlich Award recognizes faculty for exemplary leadership in advancing students' civic learning and higher education's contributions to the public good, including teaching with engaged pedagogies, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional support for service-learning and civic engagement, conducting community-based research, and other means of acting on individual and institutional civic commitments. One award of $2,000 will be granted to a faculty member from a Campus Compact member institution. Up to ten finalists will also be selected and recognized.

Please note that for faculty committed to civic and community engagement, there are two major national awards: the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award, 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 these awards with your colleagues and consider applying or nominating someone else. For more information about the Ehrlich Award and a link to the online application form, see www.compact.org/awards/ehrlich. More information about the Lynton Award can be found at www.nerche.org.