Undergraduate Outstanding Achievement Award

The Dean’s Undergraduate Outstanding Achievement Award is given to the student who demonstrates an exceptional level of creative/scholarly achievement throughout the student’s undergraduate studies in relation to peers within their discipline. The criteria is based on the quality of both the student’s creative/scholarly achievements and presentation.

Departments submit the selected nominee to Mallory Gary. Students nominated to the CCFA Leadership Team will receive a $100 check and a plaque. The Dean's Undergraduate Outstanding Achievement Award winner will receive $250 and a plaque. All selected students will be recognized at the university-wide Honors Assembly.

The deadline for departmental nominations is Friday, March 10, 2023.

Selection criteria for departmental nominee:

• The chair of each department will send out a call for nominations to all faculty
• The faculty should submit a brief statement detailing how the student meets the criteria
• The student nominations should be reviewed by the departmental scholarship/awards committee and the final recommendation should be forwarded to the department chair
• The chair will forward that recommendation to Mallory Gary.
• Each chair should ensure that the department award nominee has a dedicated faculty member to advise the student in preparing the submission materials to the CCFA Leadership Team

Award criteria:

1)  Creative/Scholarly Accomplishments (60%)
       A. Creative/scholarly outcomes throughout the course of undergraduate studies should:

• Show increasingly complex levels of engagement with the nominee’s subject matter
• Embrace innovative approaches to knowledge acquisition, critical analysis, and problem solving
• Demonstrate an enthusiasm for exploring different perspectives and developing new skills

       B. The featured creative project (which may be practice-based or academically focused) should:

• Show a sophisticated understanding of, and critical engagement with, the nominee’s subject matter
• Challenge, enhance or investigate the parameters of the nominee’s discipline

2) Presentation (40%)

The presentation (no more than 15 minutes) of the nominee’s creative/scholarly achievement should:

• Include commentary on both the body of the nominee’s work throughout the course of the nominee’s undergraduate studies and on the nominee’s featured creative/scholarly project
• Be informative, persuasive, coherent and articulate
• Include pertinent visual examples of the nominee’s creative/scholarly accomplishments (e.g. via PowerPoint, film clips, images of art work, designs, musical/theatrical/dance performance excerpts, textual excerpts)