Submitting a Nomination

The Committee on Service Learning Awards wishes to bring to your attention the opportunity for submitting nominations for the Thomas Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Service Learning.

The purpose of this award is to recognize excellence in service learning. This faculty award will be made at Founders Day ceremonies and a cash award goes with the certificate. The recipient of the Indiana University Thomas Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Service Learning will become the IU nominee for the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service Learning the following year.

Individuals may make nominations directly to the Committee or they may submit nominations through departmental chairpersons or deans. The committee does not consider visiting or emeriti faculty for this award. The committee considers only tenured full-time faculty (or faculty holding an equivalent appointment in a continuing full-time position) who have taught for five or more years at Indiana University. The following suggestions for evidence are presented for use in preparing the dossier.

General Guidelines

Candidates for this award should provide evidence that they have implemented service learning in a manner consistent with good practice, improved the course, reflected upon it, taken on leadership in their department, campus, and/or discipline and had an impact on students and the community both in and out of the classroom. Outstanding candidates will have supported the integration of community or public service into the curriculum and made efforts to institutionalize service learning.