DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AWARD

Purpose: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award recognizes excellence in research and scholarship that advances diversity, equity, and inclusion in the study and practice of service-learning and community engagement (SLCE). The purpose of the award is to recognize research that focuses specifically on a) the needs and experiences of diverse stakeholders in SLCE; b) practices that promote equity for marginalized or underserved communities; and c) strategies that make SLCE projects - and the field as a whole - more inclusive of diverse communities and perspectives. 

Eligibility: Any scholar (or team of scholars) with a distinguished body of high-impact contributions, indicating sustained field-building commitment and activity. “Scholar” as used here encompasses those who self-define as “researchers,” “scholars,” or “scholar-practitioners” and does not imply any particular academic status.

Criterios de evaluación

  1. Significance: Exemplary research as demonstrated by a significant piece of scholarship and/or body of work that focuses on the experiences of marginalized or underserved communities; explores how power, positionality, and social identities influence SLCE teaching and research; and/or illuminates possibilities for greater equity and inclusion in the practices of campus/community partnerships.

  2. Impact: Has had a significant impact on - or has the potential to impact - community stakeholders and/or SLCE research and practice as indicated by (a) influencing other research and scholarship, (b) adoption and/or adaptation of this work by scholars or practitioners, and (c) building others’ capacity for high-quality research, scholarship, and/or practice.

  3. Generativity: Scholarship that deepens understanding of SLCE in specific places, spaces, and settings in ways that expand involvement, contribute to more just and equitable research and practice, improve or inspire practice, generate opportunities for further inquiry, advance collaboration or co-creation in scholarly production, and/or generate new knowledge.

Paquete de nominación

  1. Una carta de nominación (que no exceda las dos páginas) redactada por colegas académicos, estudiantes y/o socios comunitarios en la que se resuma la contribución del candidato y se establezca su importancia en el avance del conocimiento, la profundización de la investigación y la práctica, y/o el impacto en las políticas (se aceptan cartas coescritas).

  2. Una carta de apoyo (que no exceda una página) que certifique la calidad y el impacto del trabajo del candidato (se aceptan cartas coautoras). Agradecemos las cartas de apoyo de personas u organizaciones más involucradas o impactadas por el trabajo del académico.

  3. Una publicación u otro producto académico representativo del trabajo del candidato que cumpla con los criterios del premio.

  4. Una declaración del candidato (que no exceda las dos páginas) en la que se expongan los objetivos, los procedimientos de investigación, los resultados y las orientaciones futuras (opcional).

  5. Una copia actualizada del currículum vitae o historial profesional del candidato.