Honors & Awards
In order to recognize the incredible work happening on campus through faculty, staff and students, this page houses opportunities to celebrate individuals and groups for awards and honors related to community engagement. Those faculty, staff and students who have received recognition are featured on this page.
Community Engagement Celebration Day
2025 Award Recipients
Service Learning/Live Client Project
Scott Peters, Analyzing Eviction Data for Iowa Legal Aid
Student Organization/Student Group Project
Lane Rogers, NLA Service Projects
Research-Based Project
Beth Van Meter, All About Balance
Individual Student Project
Allie Clark, Social work Pilot Program with the Boys and Girls Club
Commitment to Service
Stewart Carter, Applied Engineering
People’s Choice
Kyle Kuhlers, Building Students Capacity for Cultural Competence
Veridian Community Engagement Fellowship
2024/2025 Recipient
Creative Youth Empowerment Writing Program
Jennifer Onuigbo, Dr. Simona Boroianu, Abby Norgren, Reuben Sack. This program allowed for a customized elementary writing curriculum for Waterloo Students that addressed the diverse needs of the student body.
McElroy Youth Leadership Fund
2024/2025 Recipients
Story Avatars
Taraneh Matloob and team w/ Waterloo Career Center
“We Got This”: Empowering Professional Learning and Community Connections
Age Friendly 100th Day of School Celebrations
Presidents' Engaged Campus Awards
Seed Coalition Presidents' Engaged Campus Award are selected by President Nook. The awards reflect the institute's ability to improve community life and to educate students for civic and social responsibility.
2024/2025 Recipients
President's' Student Leadership
Revitalizing Waterloo's Tree Canopy: Public Admin Students
Presidents' Civic Engagement Leadership
Justin Holmes & Panthers Vote
President's Community Partner
Peoples Clinic
Alumni Leadership Award
Pernell Cezar
Emerging Innovation Runner Up
Revitalizing Waterloo's Tree Canopy: Public Admin Students
Next Step Program, Niki Harken
- Engaged Campus Awards
The annual Engaged Campus Awards recognize individuals and groups in Iowa higher education for their work toward the Iowa Campus Compact mission of deepening and strengthening campus civic and community engagement.
The third annual Engaged Campus Awards will feature new categories that reflect the new 2020 Iowa Campus Compact Strategic Plan and to encourage new types of nominations. The general nomination form has also been shortened and simplified and a new Network Choice Award nomination process will also be offered to encourage a broader range of honorees. Get ready to make your nominations!
- Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty
The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who connects his or her teaching, research and service to community engagement.
The Lynton Award is designated as an award for early career faculty who are pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career--within the first six years--at campuses with long-term contracts.