Service Award Nomination Form

Nominees have contributed service beyond their faculty role and core college responsibilities. Activities that demonstrate the giving of themselves, their time, and their expertise could include:

Service to the College Community

• Optional department/program responsibilities

• Committees, task forces, projects, college organizations

• Student clubs or campus student programs

• Facilitator, presenter, mentor

• Statewide council membership

External service

• Professional organization activities

• Community committees, projects, and activities

• Sharing of professional expertise

Leadership Award Nomination Form

Nominees have demonstrated a commitment to the college by serving and inspiring students, faculty and administrators. Nominees have taken initiative to guide, motivate, and organize the work of their colleagues productively.

Examples of the nominee’s work could include:

• Committee leadership

• Mentoring full-time or part-time faculty

• Participation in the CFA

• Faculty Senate

• Serving as Super Program Chair

• Program Chair

Innovation Award Nomination Form

Nominees have demonstrated educational innovation through their use of instructional methods, content, technology, or tools. Examples of innovation could include:

• Increasing student engagement through new methods

• Developing critical-thinking and creativity in students

• Fostering student-developed work, collaboration or open pedagogy

• Creating authentic learning and assessments

• Developing design thinking in students by using an iterative process to understand topics, redefine problems, and create new solutions to prototype and test

Affordability Award Nomination Form

Nominees have shown a commitment to lowering the costs of course materials for students. Examples of the nominee’s work could include:

• Adopting affordable textbooks or course materials

• Authoring affordable textbooks or course materials

• Participating in efforts to lower the cost of course materials for students

• Advocating for affordable learning materials

Increasing Access Nomination Form

Nominees have shown a commitment to reducing barriers to educational opportunity for all students. Whether delivering an in-person, hybrid, or online course, they have designed course materials that all students can access and use fully and independently. Instructors may have also provided resources that allow students to remain engaged and progressing in their course, even while experiencing temporary setbacks (e.g., illness, incarceration, caretaking responsibilities). Examples of the nominee’s work could include:

• Meeting the Accessibility Challenge

• Completing an accessibility audit with Chemeketa’s Digital Accessibility Advocate

• Promoting accessibility tools and techniques with colleagues

• Increasing student access to course sessions or content in a unique way, like an exceptional dual-delivery approach

• Implementing UDL-based strategies that reduce barriers