Nominations open for engaged scholarship awards

The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) seeking nominations for Awards of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship. The awards recognize higher education institutions and their exemplary contributions to scholarship and the practice of engaged scholarship.

Award winners will be recognized during ESC’s 2025 annual international conference, “Bridging Resources to Build Stronger Communities,” to be hosted by Virginia Tech and ESC’s East Region institutions on Oct. 8-9 at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center. In addition to participation in the Awards and Recognition program, category winners will be invited to share their exemplary program experiences during an Award Recipients Panel presentation.

The 2025 awards will recognize exemplary institutional programs in the following categories: 

• Student
• Faculty
• Outreach and Engagement Professional
• Community Partner

The consortium is also accepting applications for the Distinguished Dissertation Award. This award will recognize emerging scholars who advance research on community engagement scholarship through rigorous and innovative dissertation inquiry and whose work contributes to the field by having the potential for impact on the study, practice, and policies of community engagement.

Nominations must be submitted by April 4, 2025.