Presidential Medal
The ASHE Presidential Medal will be presented to an individual of the current president’s choice at the ASHE Annual Meeting awards ceremony each year. The recipient can be a mentor, colleague, research collaborator, or someone else in higher education whom the outgoing president deems worthy of public acknowledgment. In the event of a posthumous presentation, a colleague, former student, or family member will be invited to accept the medal on the awardee’s behalf. Only one ASHE Presidential Medal can be presented each year.
2020 Presidential Medal - Local Change Agent Award:
Tamara Bertrand Jones, Florida State University
Honorable Mention:
Ashley Booker, Mercer University
Tara L. Parker, University of Massachusetts Boston
Call for Nominations
Nominations for the 2021 award will open in May 2021.To submit a nomination you will need the following information to complete the form:
- Name, Title, Position, Institution, Email, and Phone Number of Coordinating Nominator
- Name, Title, Position, Institution, Email, and Phone Number of Nominee
- A nomination letter outlining how the faculty member has acted as a change agent. The nominating letter should address
- the issue the change agent is addressing
- what research or evidence base the scholar has drawn on
- what they have done to share this work or implement it with their campus
- the time period over which this work occurred and
- measures of impact the work has had on students, faculty, staff, climate or other groups or issues on campus.
- The letter can include quotes from multiple stakeholders on campus, including those most impacted by the local change agent’s work. However, the nominating letter should be no longer than 5 pages (single-spaced).
Recipients:
2020 Tamara Bertrand Jones2020 (Honorable Mention): Ansley Booker
2020 (Honorable Mention): Tara Parker
2018 Mary Howard Hamilton