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Complete Award Nomination Information and Past Award Recipients

EEE-TIG Awards 2011 Nominations

Deadline September 2, 2011

 

Call for 2011 Award Nominations

Each year the EEE-TIG presents up to five awards in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. These awards recognize our colleagues for professional excellence and service to Extension education evaluation. The awards are presented at the annual AEA meeting, which will be held October 31 - November 5, 2011 in Anaheim, CA. The EEE-TIG Board of Directors requests your assistance in nominating deserving colleagues. Award categories and past recipients are listed below. Nominations can be accepted from members and non-members of EEE-TIG. Nominees need not be EEE-TIG members. The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2010 EEE-TIG awards program is Sept. 2, 2011.

 

Award Categories and Past Recipients

Sustained Excellence in Extension Evaluation Award

This award is given for conceptual, methodological and evaluation accomplishments making outstanding contributions to Extension and evaluation. Previous recipients are Midge Smith and George Mayeske (1990), Richard Krueger (1991), Kay Rockwell (1992) , Sara Steele (1994), Mary Marshall (1998), and Claude Bennett (2000), the team of Sherry Betts, Donna Peterson, Karen Hoffman-Tepper, Dan McDonald, Lucinda Richmond, James Roebuck, Mary Marczak (2003), Nancy Ellen Kiernan (2004), Michael Duttweiler (2005), K. S. U.(Jay) Jayaratne (2006), Michael Lambur (2007), Marilyn Townsend (2008), Rama Radhakrishna (2009), Glenn Israel (2010).

 The Mary Nell Greenwood Extension Evaluation Award

This award is given for administrative or program leadership toward outstanding organizational, policy and resource contributions to Extension evaluation. Previous recipients are: Leo Lucas (1990), John Woeste (1992), Gail Skinner-West (1995), Andrew Weber (1996), Ellen Fitzsimmons (1998), Michelle Rodgers (2000), Kevin Reilly and Marvin Van Kekerix (2002), Dale Blyth (2003), Steve Wyatt (2004), Nancy Franz (2005), Mark McCann (2007), A. Scott Reed (2008), Jewel Hairston (2009), Robert McDonald (2010).

Excellence in Extension Program Evaluation Award

This award is given for an evaluation of outstanding quality. This may be an individual or team award to professional evaluators or to those whose major responsibility is not program evaluation. Criteria for excellence in program evaluation are accuracy, feasibility, propriety and utility, with particular emphasis placed on utility in improving Extension programs, policies and/or accountability. Previous recipients include Michael Lambur and Judy Burtner (1994), Ken Pigg (1995), the team of Garee Earnst, Denise Ellsworth, Rubin Nieto, N.L. McCaslin and Laryssa Lackman (1996), Glenn Israel (1997), Nancy Ellen Kiernan (1998), Murari Suvedi (1998), the team of Michael Lambur, Radhika Rajgopal, Edwin Lewis, Ruby Cox, and Michael Ellerbrock (1999), and the team of Susan Barkman and Krisanna Machtmes (2000), and the team of Mary Alice Gettings and Cindy Javor (2001), Renee Daugherty, Ron Powers, Sue Williams, Wendy Petersen and Christine Johnson (2002), Pennie Crinion; Bill Million; Sheri Seibold; and Charles D. Clark. (2005). Mary Arnold, Robin VanWinkle, Anne Manlove, Doug Hart, Mary Dunn, Elissa Wells, & Dana Martin (2007), Mary Ehret (2008), Nancy Grudens-Schuck (2010).

 Excellence in Extension Evaluation Training Award

This award is given for evaluation training of outstanding quality by an individual or team. The nominees may be professional evaluator(s) or those whose major responsibility is not program evaluation. Criteria for excellence in evaluation training include creativity, enablement of trainees in evaluation practice, and the use of training to further extension evaluation. Previous recipients include Kay Rockwell (1996), Satish Verma and Roger Rennekamp (1999), Richard Rohs (2000), Ellen Fitzsimmons, Ellen Taylor-Powell, Heather Boyd and Robin Shepard (2002), Lisa Guion (2003), Mary Arnold (2004), Lisa Townson (2005), Nancy Grudens-Schuck and Jean Eels (2006), Joseph Donaldson (2009, Scott Cummings (2010).

 Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Extension Evaluation Profession

This award is given for leadership and service in creating networks and gaining visibility for Extension evaluators. Previous recipients include Claude Bennett (1988), John Michael (1998) John Richardson (1999), Milton Fujii and David Underwood (2002), Ellen Taylor-Powell (2003), Richard Rohs (2006), Roger Rennekamp (2007), Michael Newman (2008), Michael Lambur (2010).

 

Nomination Packet and Submissions

Nomination packets should consist of the following:

1. One-page rationale for nomination, including:

A. The specific award for which the nomination is submitted

B. Name, title, institution of the nominee(s)

C. Descriptive information to support the nomination

 2. Appropriate supporting documents, such as a copy of product(s) developed by the nominee

 3. Three letters of support that speak to the nominee's strengths based on the award criteria and purpose

 4. Name, address, phone & email address of person making the nomination

 

Please submit nomination packet by September 2, 2011 (electronic submissions required) to:

 

Lisa Townson, Ph.D. Assistant Director, Programs
University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
201A Taylor Hall - College Road Durham, NH 03824
Phone: (603) 862-1031
Email: lisa.townson@unh.edu

 

EEE-TIG Resources

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EEE-TIG Awards
Each year the EEE-TIG presents up to five awards in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. These awards recognize our colleagues for professional excellence and service to Extension education evaluation. The awards are presented at the annual AEA meeting, which will be held November 11-13, 2010 in San Antonio, TX. The EEE-TIG Board of Directors requests your assistance in nominating deserving colleagues. Award categories and past recipients are listed below. Nominations can be accepted from members and non-members of EEE-TIG.

Nominees need not be EEE-TIG members. The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2010 EEE-TIG awards program is Sept. 3, 2010.


Complete EEE-TIG Award and Nomination Information and Past Award Winners