Student Leadership Award

SL Folks:

Here's a compilation of the responses I have received on Student Leadership
Award.

Thanks very much for the following people who are gracious enough to share
their models with us.

Vincent Peters
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We have a group of students (a bona fide Student Organization) who raise the
money for the awards each year and then select the winners.  They also raise
money for an endowment so the awards will eventually be perpetual.  Right
now the awards are a nomination only process.  If we ever get big enough to
need it, we intend to add an application process to that for the "finalists"
so we are sure to have all their good deeds in front of the committee.

This year, we hope to add staff, faculty, alumni, etc. awards to the pile.
They will not have a cash prize, but will be recognized.

hope this helps,
Lori Deana Salter
Coordinator, Volunteer Services Center
Texas A&M University
mailto:serve@tamu.edu
979/845.1133
http://givem.tamu.edu/
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Hi Vincent, I work in Queen's University Belfast on a Service
Learning Type project. You can get more information about this on
www.qub.ac.uk/scisho/ Last year, as a added incentive for students
(some call it a bribe, but lets not argue over semantics!!) we
introduced a competition for students who completed a service
learning project.

After discussion with community partners, careers advisors at the
university and students we drew up a list of desirable and essential
criteria to use when judging what was the best student project.

Essential

1. Did the completed research meet agreed requirements? - these
agreed requirements are set by the community partner and the student
before the work commences and noted down in a contract.

2. Was the project completed within agreed deadlines? - important for
both the student, who has to learn to work to other people's agenda
and for the group who need the work carried out in a reasonable time.

3. Was the presentation of the completed project appropriate for the
group's needs?
For example are the conclusions clearly presented in an easily
understood language? However this raised the question of do we make
it explicit to the student when they are undertaking the project that
it is expected to do this, or is it implicit?

4. Did the student work well with the group? Did they conduct their
relationship
with the group in an appropriate manner? - this is gauged from
information provided in an evaluation form that the community partner
is asked to completed once the work is finished.

Desirable

1. Was the evaluation from the group generally positive about the completed
project?

2. Overall is there a sense that the student understands the aims,
objectives and ethos
of the group.
I personally feel that this is very important; that students get an
overall idea of how community and voluntary groups contribute to
wider society - particularly here in Northern Ireland - and that they
get an understanding of how their work is placed in a broader
context.

3. Was there anything outstanding about the project.
In the end this was the crunch factor, many of the projects were of a
high standard but the winner (a piece of research carried out by a
student into suicide and depression among the gay community in
northern Ireland) was of a markedly higher caliber than other pieces
of work.

I hope this is of some help, if you would like to discuss it further
please get in touch.
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Elizabeth Hendron
Assistant Co-ordinator
The Science Shop
http://www.qub.ac.uk/scisho/
e.hendron@qub.ac.uk
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Here at Lehigh University we have a Service Above Self Award.  This award is
presented to a graduating member of the senior class that has shown
countless acts
of selflessness with regards to serving the community.  During the spring
semester,
information about student nominees is solicited from Lehigh faculty, staff, and
students.  A committee is put together to review all nominees with input
from the
Community Service Office Staff.  This award has only been given out since the
1996-1997 academic year.  The number of recipients depends on the number of
nominees
and the qualifying materials that accompany the nominees name.

Good luck with your project and I hope that this information has been helpful.

Sincerely,
Tammy Bean
Community Service Program Coordinator
39 University Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-758-5445
610-758-6692
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We have an annual Public Service Leadership Awards program that is funded by
an alumnus of the College. We put out a call for nominations; students may
nominate themselves. We get about 35-40 nominees each year. An ad hoc
committee comprised of one faculty member, one student, and one staff
member, plus myself, review the nominations. We select 4-6 (usually 6)
students to receive special recognition. All others receive a certificate
recognizing their nomination. The president and his wife host the dinner. We
invite all nominees, someone from the agency at which the student
volunteers, key community and campus folks, student leaders in our service
organizations, etc. We just started also recognizing a person for his/her
involvement in literacy connected to another program we run.

If you want more details, let me know. Good luck!
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Tiffany Nourse Sargent
Director of Service Learning & Student Employment
Career Services Office
Middlebury College
137 McCullough Student Center
Middlebury, VT  05753
(802)443-3450
FAX (802)443-2990
e-mail:  tns@middlebury.edu
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Vincent Peters
Associate Dean of Off-Campus Programs &
Professor of Social Work
3900 Bethel Drive
Arden Hills, MN 55112
Phone:  (651) 638-6124
Fax: (651) 635-1966
Internet: v-peters@bethel.edu

"I slept and dreamt that life was pleasure;
  I woke and saw that life was service;
  I served and discovered that service was pleasure."

                                         - Rabindranath Tagore

"The greatest tragedy is not to live and die, as we all must.
  The greatest tragedy is for a person to live and die
  without knowing the satisfaction of giving life to others."

                                         - Cesar E. Chavez

"As long as space remains,
  As long as living beings remain,
  I will remain
  In order to Serve."
                                        - Dalai Lama
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