Engagement Scholarship Consortium 2025 Excellence Awards
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium’s Awards Program provides institutional recognition of excellence in community-engaged scholarship. Individuals or teams may apply for one or more of these awards in the following categories through the awards portal: Student, Faculty, Outreach and Engagement Professional, Community Partner, and Distinguished Dissertation.
The Institutional Leadership Award and the Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award have separate selection processes managed by the ESC Executive Committee.
- Excellence in Student Community Engagement Award (Open to all student-led engagement programs — undergraduate, graduate, and professional students).
- Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award (Open to all faculty, regardless of rank and tenure status).
- Excellence in Community Partner Engagement Award (Open to community-based organizations — nonprofit, public agencies, NGO's).
- Excellence in Outreach and Engagement Professional Engagement Award (Open to all college or university staff regardless of length of service).
- Ryan Moser Reilly Institutional Leadership Award (Open to ESC member institutions only).
- Hiram E. Fitzgerald Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award (Open to scholars representing institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, or public agencies).
- Distinguished Dissertation Award (Open to any academic discipline or interdisciplinary program and have defended and filed their dissertation no more than 24 months prior to the submission deadline).