TEXAAN Awards
TEXAAN offers the following awards:
Nominations for the following awards are typically due in the beginning of February. Please visit the TEXAAN website to see forms and due dates.
Individual Awards:
Academic Advising Administrator The award is for an individual who may provide direct academic advising services but whose primary responsibility is an administrator or director of an academic advising program. Click here to view criteria and eligibility of the award.
Outstanding Academic Advisor Award The award is for an individual whose primary role at the institution is direct delivery of academic advising services to students. Click here to view criteria and eligibility of the award.
Faculty Advisor Recognition Award The award is for an individual whose primary responsibility is teaching and who spends a portion of their time providing academic advising services to students. Click here to view criteria and eligibility of the award.
Lifetime Service Award The award recognizes individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to TEXAAN and the work of academic advisors, counselors, coaches, and others. Nominees must have contributed at least fifteen (15) or more years of service to the profession of higher education. Nominees and/or their work must embody TEXAAN’s mission, vision, core values and have a positive impact on student success. Previous recipients are not eligible for consideration.
Institutional Awards:
Remarkable Advising Initiative Award The award recognizes an initiative or a substantial improvement to an existing initiative that has greatly advanced the success of students within the advising program or institution as a whole. Click here to view criteria and eligibility of the award.
Outstanding Innovative Advising Technology Award The award recognizes a notable advancement in technology used for the advisement of students that has led to an improvement in the success of students within the advising program or institution as a whole. Click here to view criteria and eligibility of the award.
TEXAAN Award Winners:
2020
Seibel Learning Center (Galveston Campus), Outstanding Innovative Advising Technology Award
2019
Analicia Leiva, Outstanding Innovative Advising Technology Award
Daniel Springer, Outstanding Innovative Advising Technology Award
Mary Bryk, Faculty Advisor Recognition Award
2017
Rafael Almanzar, Outstanding Academic Advisor Award