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2009 Leveraging Excellence Award

Each year at the Quality Issues Forum, Penn State recognizes the innovation and improvement initiatives taking place in academic and administrative units across the University. Such efforts are now being recognized nationally through the Leveraging Excellence award. In 2008 the Leveraging Excellence award, sponsored by the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education recognized the innovative and collaborative work of two of the organizations of which Penn State is a member. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation won the Leveraging Excellence award for its collaboration efforts which included coordinated purchasing, a shared fiber network, and shared study abroad and course development. In addition, the Worldwide Universities Network, a partnership of Penn State and fifteen other leading research universities won an Honorable Mention for the award.

We have a chance to be further recognized for how we have successfully leveraged our other efforts across Penn State and other institutions. The Leveraging Excellence award for 2009 will recognize initiatives that have been disseminated across or beyond an institution. Both academic and administrative units are eligible. The practice being leveraged must be demonstrated to be an effective practice, have broad impact, whether it be implemented by many units/institutions or a large scale of impact, and have significant and measurable impact.

Award applications are due October 1, 2008. Recipients will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in Washington, DC, in February 2009. More information about the award is at http://ncci-cu.org/Visitors/Awards/awardprogram.cfm; the application can be found at http://ncci-cu.org/awardapplication/. If you would like to read more about the 2008 award winners, see http://ncci-cu.org/Visitors/Documents/NCCI-awrdsbooklet_2008_000.pdf.

Our office is available to assist you in completing the short application form. If you have initiatives in your unit that may warrant nomination for this award, please contact Marianne Guidos in the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment at meg105@psu.edu or 814-863-8721.

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