President’s Leadership Awards
The President’s Leadership Awards were established in 2017 to honor staff and faculty who embody leadership, service, innovation, courage, collaboration, community building, and diversity and inclusion. The award program runs biennially, and will return during the 2025-26 academic year. Award recipients are announced at Spring Conference and receive possession of a Heartwood Trophy for one year.
The Presidential Leadership Awards Program is run by the President’s Office with the help of the CC community. We remain committed to ensuring equitable practices are at the forefront – from the nominations to the selection process. The President’s Office will continue to welcome feedback to evaluate and improve the program as we all actively and collectively work together to advance our ADEI commitment.
Award Recipient 24-25
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Jane Cauvel Collaboration and Community-Building Award
Award Recipient Demographics
Since 2017, we have been collecting demographic data on past honorees in order to provide better transparency about the internal work we are doing to make the awards more equitable. From 2017 through 2024, the honorees were described under the following categories.
Submit Your Nominations Here
→ President's Leadership Awards Nomination Form ←
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Nomination Criteria and Eligibility
Please nominate staff or faculty, as individuals or groups, who demonstrate CC's leadership philosophy and have made impactful contributions in their work. Nominations can be made for contributions that have taken place over a span of years or contributions that have been more recent. Whether they have a dedicated history with the college long term or are a new motivating force, an impact can be made at any time within the employee life cycle, and all contributions deserve recognition.
Submissions are recommended to be around 400-600 words on a word document or PDF file.
Nominations must be submitted through the application link above. Please write about examples and context relevant to the award you are submitting a nomination for. Questions to consider for each award can be found in the award descriptions below along with examples of past nominations.
There must be at least four nominations for an award category to move forward to the review committee process.
Brian Young Community Service Award
This awardee demonstrates a continued pattern of voluntary service to the college and exceeding their job duties, as demonstrated by former Vice President for Information Technology Brian Young. The awardee must have been employed by the college for five years or more. See past winners. [examples of winning nominations for the Community Service Award]
Do you know someone who has continuously given of themselves to the college above and beyond their assigned job duties — someone who embodies community service to students, or other members of the staff and faculty, of the college as a whole?
Victor Nelson-Cisneros Diversity and Inclusion Award
This awardee exemplifies the qualities of former Associate Dean of the College Victor Nelson-Cisneros in supporting diversity and inclusion on campus. See past winners. [examples of winning nominations for the Diversity and Inclusion Award]
Do you know someone who makes a point of including diverse perspectives in meetings, conversations, and projects? Someone who is inclusive in planning for the future? Do you have a colleague who intentionally brings all of the right people to the table for decision-making and ensures those voices represent the college's community?
Glenn Brooks Innovation and Courage Award
This awardee displays the courage and innovative qualities of former Dean of the College/Dean of the Faculty Glenn Brooks, who was one of the founders of the Block Plan. See past winners. [examples of winning nominations for the Innovation and Courage Award]
Have you worked with a unit on campus whose members are creative and innovative in approaching their work? Do you work with a group that doesn't assume business as usual is the best practice? A group who consistently thinks outside of the box and pursues excellence every day?
Jane Cauvel Cultivating Collaboration and Community-building Award
This awardee cultivates collaboration on campus and is a community-builder, as exemplified by Jane Cauvel, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, and the college's first ombudsperson. See past winners. [examples of winning nominations for the Collaboration and Community-Building Award]
Do you know someone who embodies the spirit of community building? Someone who builds and sustains bridges across units or between the faculty and staff? Do you know a team who uses collaboration as a foundational tool in their interactions with other units across campus?
The Heartwood Trophies
Reclaimed cross-sections from the trees taken down in the construction of Tutt Library, the Heartwood Trophies honor not only our people, but also our sense of place. Award recipients will have their names engraved on the growth rings and receive possession of a Heartwood Trophy for one year. Apart from the initial recognition and fortune that comes from being named recipient, rumors of luck and fortuity also surround the trophies. Recipients of years past reported the trophies increased office visitors, evoked pleasant memories, and made office plants grow. There was even a report that an honoree was never without a pen the year they had the trophy.
Timeline and Process
Timeline, Selection Process and Awards
The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. After the nomination window closes, a review committee for each award category scores nominations using an equity conscious rubric. Once all scoring is complete, the Award Program Manager tallies the scores to identify the award recipients. Award recipients and their nominators will be announced at Spring Conference on January 24, 2025.
In addition to being honored with an award, award recipients will also be featured on CC websites, receive a $2,500 premium (per award category distributed among groups if applicable), their names are engraved onto a Heartwood Trophy, and are given possession of a Heartwood Trophy for one year. After one year, award recipients are presented an individual block trophy and the Heartwood Trophies are collected for the next cohort of recipients.
For questions about the awards program or the nomination process, please contact Monica Indrebo.