School of Education Alumni Awards

About the Awards

Do you know an outstanding teacher, professor, school counselor, or administrator? An occupational therapist who has shown significant achievement? An artist or dancer who has had a great career? Someone whose lifelong dedication to public service reflects the ideals of the School of Education?

If you do, and if the person is a UW-Madison School of Education graduate or certificate recipient, you should consider nominating him or her for a School of Education alumni award. There are two types of awards:

• Alumni Achievement Award
• Outstanding Recent Graduate Award

Alumni Achievement Award

The Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the School of Education, recognizes a career of extraordinary accomplishment. Recipients are selected based on one of the following criteria: 1) significant contributions to one's chosen field and an exemplary record of professional leadership, or 2) outstanding service to one's community and/or UW-Madison that reflects the commitment to public service for which the School of Education is known. The nominee must have received a degree or certificate from a program within the School of Education.

Recipients will be honored for their achievements at a special School of Education event during American Education Week in November at which they will receive a citation and a gift commemorating their award. Award recipients will be brought to campus as guests of the School of Education.

Outstanding Recent Graduate Award

The Outstanding Recent Graduate Award recognizes outstanding graduates who have received a degree or certificate from a program within the School of Education within the past 10 years (2002 or after). Selection is based on demonstrated achievement and leadership within a chosen field, as well as the potential and promise for continued growth and success.

Recipients will be honored for their achievements at a special School of Education event during which they will receive a citation and a gift commemorating their award. Award recipients will be brought to campus as guests of the School of Education.

Nomination Forms & Deadlines

To make a nomination ...

• Complete and print out the two-page Alumni Awards Nomination Form.
  (The form is a Microsoft Word document that you may fill in and save.)
• Attach the candidate's resume or curriculum vitae.
• Include at least two and no more than five additional letters of support.

Send all materials to:
UW-Madison School of Education External Relations Office
Room 181 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706-1326

OR contact the School's External Relations Office, and we'll send the nomination form to you:

Ashley Voss, Public Relations Coordinator
avoss@wisc.edu or (608) 265-7875

• Nomination deadline for the 2012 Alumni Achievement Award and Outstanding Recent Graduate Award is January 17, 2012.

Please note, nominations remain active for two years beyond the original nomination year. Current faculty and staff of UW-Madison are NOT eligible.