Nominations open for the 2025 Community Partner of the Year Award!
Ball State University’s Office of Community Engagement is accepting nominations from Ball State faculty, staff, and students for the 2025 Community Partner Award.
The purpose of the award is to recognize an Indiana* business, organization, school, or agency that has demonstrated excellence in their contributions as a community partner with Ball State University during the Summer 2023, Fall 2023, and/or Spring 2024 terms.
Nominees must have partnered with Ball State faculty/staff, and students between the period of May 1, 2023 – May 1, 2024 as part of one of the following community-based learning experiences:
- Service or immersive learning
- Community-based research
- Internship and/or practicum
The award recipient will receive $500 and will be honored publicly at the Immersive Learning Showcase on April 18, 2025. Nominations may be submitted by Ball State faculty, staff, or students only. The deadline for submission is December 6, 2024. Questions? Please contact Kelli Huth, Associate Vice President for Community Engagement.
Nomination Form
What you'll need to know to nominate your outstanding partner (400 word limit/question):
- Describe the community-based learning experience (as defined in the award purpose statement) that the business, agency, school, or organization supported during Summer 2023, Fall 2023, and/or Spring 2024.
- In what ways did the community partner organization serve as co-educators in the experience?
- What did Ball State students gain from their experiences working with the community partner organization?
- What did the community partner organization gain from working with Ball State faculty, staff, and/or students?
- Is there anything else you would like to add that would help the selection committee make its decision? (Limit: 200 words)
Questions?
Please contact Kelli Huth, Vice President for Community Engagement at kelli.huth@bsu.edu.
*Priority consideration will be given to East Central Indiana counties which include Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Grant, Henry, Jay, Madison, Randolph, Rush and Wayne.
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