EEE-TIG Awards 2008 Nominations
Deadline September 26, 2008
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Call for Nominations
Each year the EEE-TIG presents up to five awards in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. These awards are great opportunities to 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 3-8, 2008 in Denver, CO. 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 2008 EEE-TIG awards program is Sept. 26, 2008.
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), Roger Rennekamp (2007).
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).
Excellence in 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).
Excellence in 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).
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), Michael Lambur (2007).
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. Letters of support (No specific number of letters is required. Successful nominations typically have included three or more such letters.)
4. Name, address, phone & email address of person making the nomination
Please submit nomination packet by September 26, 2008 (electronic submissions encouraged) to:
Mary E. Arnold
EEE-TIG Awards Chair
105 Ballard Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
For More Information
Contact Mary
mary.arnold@oregonstate.edu
American Evaluation Association
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