The Diversity Committee is now accepting nominations for the MGA's 2024 Culture and Community Award. This award recognizes a staff or faculty member who has demonstrated a commitment to fostering culture and community at the university and/or in the community.
Eligibility for Nomination
A faculty or staff member nominated for this award must:
- Have taught or been employed for at least 3 semesters at Middle Georgia State University.
Additionally, a faculty or staff member may not be nominated if they:
- Received the Diversity Award in the previous 5 years or the MGA Culture and Community Award in more recent years.
- Are a current member of the Diversity Committee.
Criteria for Nomination
The faculty or staff member nominated must:
- Have demonstrated a commitment to culture and community opportunities or activities that directly improve Middle Georgia State University campuses and/or its surrounding communities. To be considered for the award, the nominee must meet three of the following criteria:
- Holding a leadership position in an organization that fosters culture and community.
- Participation in a minimum of five programs linked to culture and community at the institutional, USG, state, community, or national level.
- Planning, organizing, and executing a minimum of three activities at the institutional or community level that foster culture and community.
- Membership in a recognized organization at the state or national level that deals with culture and community.
- Presentation on culture and community at the community, state or national level.
- Publication(s) on issues related to culture and community in peer-reviewed journals at the state or national level.
- Mentoring and/or fostering relationships with students in an effort to further culture and community on campus and/or the community.
- Incorporating culture and community in pedagogical techniques/curriculum.
- Participating in or creating/hosting events which foster culture and community on campus, or in our community.
- Plays an active role by volunteering, organizing, or leading a student organization that fosters culture and community.
- Fostering an environment and activities that promote social and civil engagement and bring awareness of the lived experience of underrepresented groups.
Nominations
Candidates for this award may be nominated by students, alumni, staff, fellow faculty, department chairs, or deans. A candidate may nominate themselves but must obtain an additional letter of support from one of the above-mentioned people.
Nomination Procedure
- Materials needed:
- A letter of nomination that is no less than 1 page and no more than 3 pages long; emphasize how and why the candidate fulfills the criteria outlined above; be signed.
- A current CV.
- Any other material supporting evidence of the candidate’s commitment to culture and community.
- If the candidate is nominating oneself, an additional letter of support must be submitted satisfying the criteria below.
- Be no less than 1 page and no more than 3 pages long;
- Emphasize how and why the candidate fulfills the criteria outlined above;
- Be signed or come from the letter writer’s MGA email account. A PDF document is preferred when possible.
Submission of Materials
Materials should be submitted to Dr. George L. Israel (larry.israel@mga.edu), by March 1. They should come from the submitter’s MGA email account.
