Call for Nominations: The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award Deadline for receipt of materials: October 1, 2019
TheK. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. (Information about past recipients of the Cross Award is availablehere.)
The award honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout her career, Pat Cross helped the higher education community better understand our students, their characteristics, and their needs, and recognize what our responsibilities should be. Her ground-breaking scholarship paved the way for a legacy of work on age, socioeconomic class, gender, race, sexual orientation, and numerous other aspects of intersectional social identity.
Please visit this site for complete information about the Cross Award.
Eligibility
Applicants must demonstrate:
1. Leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, with a strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility; and 2. Leadership or potential leadership in the development of others as leaders, scholars, and citizens.
Nomination Process
Nominations can be submitted anytime, but all materials must be submitted online no later than October 1, 2019. Each nominee—or an individual acting on her/his behalf—must complete theCross Award nomination form to begin the online submission process. Only complete nominations will be considered.
The Award
The award includes travel, lodging, conference registration, and a one-year affiliation with AAC&U, including subscriptions to all AAC&U periodicals.
The awards will be announced in December 2019, and recognized atAAC&U's Annual Meeting in January.
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