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2024 Excellence in DEI in Marketing, Enrollment, and Student Success Award Nomination Form

Open Date: Monday, June 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM
Close Date: Friday, July 19, 2024 9:00:00 AM
Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time

Description

The Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness in Marketing, Enrollment, and Student Success Award recognizes institutions or departments that have dedicated their time and efforts to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout their marketing, recruitment, communication, programming, student success/services and/or enrollment efforts. This award focuses on a commitment to equity, representation and inclusion in a school’s marketing, enrollment and/or student success/services. Award recipients will have shown increased and sustained success in recruiting and retaining underrepresented populations based on their marketing and/or student success/services. This award is affiliated with the UPCEA Marketing, Enrollment, and Student Success Network.

Criteria:
  • At least one representative of the nominated institution/department must be an institutional member of UPCEA. Corporate members are expected to submit in conjunction with an institutional member. Click here to check your institution’s membership status.
The nominee must provide concrete examples of
  • Demonstrable recent success within the past 2 years, such as increases in numbers of underrepresented populations served, increased engagement via targeted scholarships, augmented persistence rates, staff training, etc.
  • Evidence of exceptional efforts to promote a more inclusive learning environment that addresses inequities, including impact data (inquiries, enrollments, etc.) 
  • Substantiation of the contribution that the work has made towards advancing diversity, equity and inclusion
  • The nominees’ marketing, admissions offices and/or on-campus support services are representative and inclusive of all, and that attracting and retaining underrepresented students (including first-year and adult populations) is a top priority
Nominees are particularly sought which embody any of the following:

  • Intentional processes or approaches that move an institution towards inclusivity 
  • Cross-campus collaborations designed to support student success
  • Received feedback and used it to improve underrepresented student’s experiences (examples: change campus culture, increase access to services, etc.). 
  • Intersectional approaches to equity, diversity, and inclusion
View judging rubric

Nomination Procedure:
  • Complete the nomination form (opens June 10, 2024; deadline to submit nomination July 18, 2024).
Include among the supporting documents the following:
  • Narrative statement that warrants nomination
  • Materials (maximum of 6 items) should showcase long-term initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across marketing, recruitment, communications, programming, student success/services, and enrollment

All award nominations and materials must be submitted by July 18, 2024

Click here to submit a nomination!

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