Chancellor's Award for Advancing Equity Nomination

The Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Equity honors a full-time faculty or staff member for excellence in building and expanding a community of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at WSU Vancouver. The award recognizes this individual’s outstanding and impactful service to WSU Vancouver through contributions to realizing one or more of the following objectives from Goal 4 of WSU Vancouver’s strategic plan: ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes for all student populations; ensure equitable recruitment, retention and promotion of employees across demographic groups; cultivate and maintain a campus climate that fosters belonging, safety and opportunity to thrive for all employees and students; and/or employ an equity lens instrument in decision-making and processes.

Directions

WSU Vancouver students, staff and faculty may nominate a full-time faculty or staff member for this award. Submit a thorough, descriptive and mindful nomination that describes how your nominee meets the award criteria. While all four categories of criteria are not required to submit a nomination, nominators should be aware and mindful that the four categories of criteria are interconnected. Therefore, the quality of the nomination is improved by providing as much relevant information about the nominee in each category of criteria as is possible.

Nominations should be thoughtful, descriptive and thorough. The committee for the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Equity will rate nominations based on one or more of the following criteria:

Ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes for all student populations
Ensure equitable recruitment, retention and promotion of employees across demographic groups
Cultivate and maintain a campus climate that fosters belonging, safety and opportunity to thrive for all employees and students
Employ an equity lens in decision-making, creating and revising of policies, processes and practices

Deadline

The last day to submit nominations for the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Equity is Friday, Feb. 16.

Questions

Email Shameem Rakha at shameem.rakha@wsu.edu if you have questions regarding the award or nomination process.

Nomination form

1. Nominee information: What is the name of the full-time WSU Vancouver staff or faculty nominee (First, Last)?

2. Nominee information: What is the position and unit/department of this nominee?

3. Nominator information: What is your name (First, Last)?

4. Nominator information: Are you a WSU Vancouver employee or student?

5. Nominator information: What is your WSU Vancouver Email address?

Complete one or more of the following categories about the nominee.

6. Describe this nominee's contribution(s) to ensuring equitable opportunities and outcomes for all student populations.

7. Describe this nominee’s contribution(s) to ensuring equitable recruitment, retention and promotion of employees across demographic groups.

8. Describe this nominee’s contributions to cultivating and maintaining a campus climate that fosters belonging, safety and opportunity to thrive for all employees and students.

9. Describe this nominee’s contributions to employing an equity lens in decision-making, creating and revising of policies, processes and practices.