First Place: Louisiana Lafayette
Second Place: Morehead State University (Habitat Project)
Third Place: Western Carolina University
Bart Andrus, Associate Director of Leadership Programs at Western Carolina University was selected for this award. He submitted our Leadership Institute Program as a general initiative showing the evolution of leadership studies , accompanying civic engaged projects , service learning, and the peer mentoring aspect of the program as designed from Freshman to Senior classes.
Award nominations
ADP contacts on campus were encouraged to nominate ADP initiatives in three categories:
campus-wide, curricular and co-curricular. Campus-wide initiatives are those funded
and/or generated by Academic Affairs, were open to the entire campus community and
had a positive impact locally, nationally or globally. Curricular initiatives are
actions for which students received course credit. Co-curricular initiatives are efforts
led by campus bodies other than Academic Affairs that did not result in course credit
and did not involve the entire campus, although their impact may have been felt by
anyone on and off campus.
Award Criteria
Curricular Award
1. Faculty involvement, commitment, support
2. Well-coordinated efforts
3. Demonstration of resolve to overcome obstacles
4. Demonstration of student leadership
5. Significant social, moral or economic impact of project
6. Significance of original mission
7. Extent to which outcomes achieved or superseded goals
8. Demonstration of learning connections made by those involved
9. Originality/creativity of the project
10. Credibility boost for future American Democracy Project efforts