Celebrating Dietrich College Staff
Presented to staff who regularly go above and beyond to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment within the college and our surrounding community.聽
Nominees will embody the values of community engagement and outreach by providing leadership, coordinating efforts which increase cultural competence, creating and enhancing inclusive climates, and connecting the larger community with their outreach efforts.聽
Nominees may demonstrate these characteristics in one or more of the following areas:聽
- Raising and deepening awareness of inclusivity issues from an employment and service provision point of view
- Creating a welcoming and supportive campus climate through efforts such as visibility, communication and education
- Valuing inclusive, safe and welcoming environments and promoting cultural competency in transformative ways that impact individual/unit/organization/division/department activities
- Volunteering in communities external to campus to foster, strengthen and promote a just society
- Demonstrating advocacy for intercultural awareness
- Actively engaging in efforts to become a change agent through learning, discovery and exploration
Nomination Process
- Submit a two-page, single-spaced nomination letter to Ayana Ledford
- Nominations can include up to two additional supporting materials (i.e. testimony from a volunteer group or organization, evidence of ongoing personal learning and discovery, flyers from events, etc.)
- In your nomination packet, please address the following:
The nomination should detail how the nominee has demonstrated inclusive leadership and commitment to engagement and outreach within the CMU community or community-at-large. In addition, the nomination should detail how the nominee鈥檚 actions have 鈥渕oved the needle鈥� in addressing issues of inclusiveness. The nomination may also detail how the nominee has demonstrated leadership in inclusivity-related work, acquired and disseminated resources to support these efforts, or developed an innovative program or project (i.e., serves on work groups to address department, college and university concerns, represents the college as a staff liaison, leads on boards for nonprofit organizations and supports their local PTA).
The nomination should detail how the nominee has contributed to critical issues of cultural competence and inclusiveness within their Dietrich College community or beyond. In addition, the nomination may explain how the nominee contributes to existing activities and projects addressing access, opportunity and/or community impact, as well as participates in or initiates inclusion-related work in areas including committees, community involvement, or community outreach (i.e., volunteer for a nonprofit organization, donating time to help community members that are not affiliated with a community group such as assisting seniors in their neighborhood, fundraising to support local schools, collecting donations for historically resilient groups in under resourced communities and/or volunteering to work election polls or canvas communities).
The nomination should detail in what capacity the nominee has participated in teaching, programming or activities designed to foster or enhance a safe and welcoming environment for all (i.e., Better Together Learning Academy, leadership training programs, or consistently engaging in community learning opportunities such as speaker series, workshops or book clubs).
