Call for CACP Award Nominations: Due Oct. 11
September 10, 2024
Dear University Community,
I am delighted to invite you to nominate staff, faculty, and students for the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP) Awards!
These awards celebrate extraordinary achievements and commitment to engaging in critical efforts to promote access and practice diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this national moment, where this very idea is challenged, recognizing members of our community whose work helps to realize the aims of our university diversity goal is especially critical. Please review the award descriptions below and apply by Friday, October 11, 2024. Only complete applications submitted through Qualtrics will be considered.
I am also thrilled to open the call for new members of the CACP. The CACP is the longest-standing university-wide committee focused on diversity and inclusion. Membership is open to staff and faculty university-wide who have demonstrated commitments to inclusion and equity, but nomination is required. Self-nominations are welcome, but interested individuals must identify a nominator who will write a letter of support. Apply by Friday, November 1, 2024.
Awardees and new members will be announced during the CACP Awards Celebration on November 14, 2024. Please save the date and plan to join us to reaffirm the importance of the CACP mission to promote the development of a university community that values and advances diversity and inclusion.
In service,
Enobong (Anna) Branch, PhD
Senior Vice President for Equity and Professor of Sociology
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Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award
This award recognizes outstanding individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and commitment to promoting and practicing diversity, inclusion, equity, and access within the University and/or in partnership with community organizations. In 2021, this long-standing award was modified to emphasize a person's body of work and proven history, recognizing accomplishments befitting a lifetime achievement award. This award is open to all Rutgers University faculty and staff. Submit your nomination here.
Impact Award
This award recognizes students (undergraduate or graduate) and recognized student organizations who have had an incredible impact in a short amount of time on issues of diversity, inclusion, equity, and access at Rutgers. This award is open to all Rutgers University undergraduate/graduate students and recognized student organizations. Submit your nomination here.
Public Good Pinnacle Award
This award recognizes outstanding collaborations that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and commitment to promoting and practicing diversity, inclusion, equity, and access within the university and in partnership with the community. This award is open to all Rutgers University faculty/staff and units. Submit your nomination here.
Torchbearer Award
This award honors leaders who promote diversity, inclusion, equity, and access at Rutgers through their academic research, teaching, community engagement, and/or workplace engagement, program development, and leadership. This award replaces the Leaders of Faculty Diversity Award and purposefully seeks to recognize the achievements of staff and faculty. This award is open to all Rutgers University faculty and staff. Submit your nomination here.
For more information on this year’s initiatives, please visit the CACP webpage or email cacp@rutgers.edu.