The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement is accepting project nominations for the 2010 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Award, which is sponsored by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). The goal of the Peter Magrath Community Engagement Award is to recognize the outreach and engagement partnership efforts of four year public universities.
Only two award applications can be submitted from a single institution. The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement is requesting a statement (no more than 500 words in length) from interested groups. That statement should describe why their project is likely to compete well in the Magrath Award Competition. The deadline for these project statements is January 25, 2010. Responses will be provided by January 29, 2010.
To submit your project as a candidate for consideration submission from our campus in 2010, please click here.
For the selected projects, a formal application will need to be prepared and submitted to APLU by March 19, 2010.
CAEPE
The Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement (CAEPE) have been awarded since 1999, recognizing faculty, academic professionals, staff employees and students who engage the public to address critical societal issues. Awards are available for both individuals and teams.
"Public engagement is one of the pillars of a modern research university. Here at Illinois it is a way of life. We believe that when communities, agencies, and organizations come together to address critical issues the whole becomes greater than the parts. This is at the heart of our mission as one the nation’s great public research universities." Chancellor Richard Herman, February, 2009
Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement
Award Ceremony Scheduled for February 2, 2010
These annual awards recognize those faculty members, academic professionals, students and public engagement projects who engage the public to address critical societal issues.
Each individual faculty member or academic professional award winner will receive a $1500 cash award and a $1500 permanent salary increase. Up to three awards will be made, with at least one being in the academic professional category. In the student category, up to two $1500 cash awards will be given to undergraduate, professional or graduate students to be used for professional development and to support other educational activities.
One Project CAEPE Award will be made to recognize outstanding contributions uniquely accomplished through a team effort. The award includes a $5,000 contribution to the sponsoring unit intended to support or enhance the project for which recognition is bestowed.
List of Past Public Engagement Award Recipients
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement Grants Awarded
Proposals for Engagement grants were accepted up through November 2, 2009. There were a total of 143 proposals submitted. A list of twenty-six peer reviewers read and evaluated the proposals based on four criteria: 1) likelihood of a positive impact; 2) potential for sustainability of the project; 3) the extent to which the proposal includes a community project; 4) over-all rating. Each proposal was reviewed separately by at least two individuals. The reviewers gave their evaluation scores based on the four criteria. The scores were then averaged and a Short list was developed from this process. The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement then made funding decisions based on the criteria and the desire to fund initiatives that reflected the diversity of engagement conducted by the campus. Of the 143 submissions, 30 were awarded grants. The decision was very difficult to make and there were many worthy proposals that did not receive funding.
A list of the awardees can be found here.
More information can be found here.
