Previous Outstanding Community Service Award Winners

The annual Outstanding Service Award honors outstanding community service activities of faculty, staff, and members of the greater University of Minnesota community.
This award recognizes outstanding contributions and accomplishments of faculty, staff or University-affiliated community members who have devoted their time and talent to make substantial, enduring contributions to the external community and to improve public life and the well-being of society. Such contributions and accomplishments must result in long-term and lasting changes for the public good and demonstrate an unusual commitment to the University and greater community.

The Outstanding Community Service Award emphasizes the importance of external community service and recognizes the role of faculty and staff that is over and above the expectations of their regular position description. Awards given to faculty or staff will also recognize the agency or group with which the recipient of the award is affiliated. Community members who receive the award will have made a significant public service or public engagement contribution through an affiliation with the University of Minnesota.

Awards given to faculty and staff will carry a continuous salary award annually during their employment at the University of Minnesota. All faculty and staff at the University are eligible to receive this award: tenured and tenure-track faculty, adjunct or contract faculty, academic professional and administrative staff, civil service staff, and bargaining unit staff. In addition, community members affiliated with the University of Minnesota may be nominated.