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UPDATE – Staff Inclusive Excellence Award Deadline Extended to Friday, March 3

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We are extending the deadline to receive nominations for the new Staff Inclusive Excellence Award to Friday, March 3; please share this opportunity with others.

Staff Inclusive Excellence Award
CU Denver is offering a Staff Inclusive Excellence Award (attached).

This award honors a staff member (classified or professional exempt) who demonstrates a long-standing commitment to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at CU Denver. Nominees will be selected based upon their record of success in any of these areas:

  • engaging our campus community to share responsibility for creating and sustaining a just, safe, and inclusive campus;
  • improving our systems to actively support minoritized people and historically marginalized identities in order to reduce bias and create and sustain equity; or,
  • redefining success through a lens of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion to unlock the potential for everyone to succeed.

This award is created in 2023 to recognize the 50th year of CU Denver’s creation, as we strive to be the nation’s first equity-serving institution by 2030: one that provides a racially and culturally enhancing educational and work environment and a sense of belonging for all. The launch of this award is part of a broader, long-term effort to recognize the work of staff in our DEI initiatives. The five-person selection committee is comprised of one representative from the Office of DEI, two representatives appointed by the Institutional Equity Advocacy Council, one appointed by Human Resources, and one from the Affinity Group Network.  The winner will receive a stipend of $1,500 and a glass sculpture. The award winner will be announced spring 2023. Complete nomination packets are due by close of business on Friday, March 3 to Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Teri Engelke at teri.engelke@ucdenver.edu.

Please limit all nomination materials (excluding the résumé) to no more than 10 pages to include:

    1. Two- or three-page statement written by a nominator or the nominee that includes the nominee’s DEI philosophy and that addresses at least one of the three criteria for the award;
    2. Correspondence from current or former colleagues such as other staff, faculty, students, peers, alumni or administrators; and,
    3. A résumé that covers the nominee’s professional experience.

Thank you and please let us know if you have any questions about the process and/or awards. Please note that the deadline for the Faculty Inclusive Excellence Award has not been extended; those are due today, February 24.