Building effective, long-term community partnerships takes commitment. The annual George D. Levy Engaged Teaching and Research Award recognizes a faculty member whose community collaborations serve as models for outstanding community-engaged learning in the classroom or through research.

The award recognizes a Cornell University faculty member whose collaborative efforts within the community have resulted in exemplary and sustained community-engaged learning projects. It supports a faculty member whose courses, research and other activities best demonstrate:

• Shared/collaborative decision-making that incorporates community voice and reciprocity into the design, implementation and evaluation of the project, course or research
• Community capacity building
• Integrating community-engaged student learning outcomes into course or research design and delivery
• Planning for sustaining the community partnership

Special consideration will be given to those who demonstrate these principles in a research setting that benefits undergraduate students.

Faculty may be self-nominated or nominated by colleagues, current or former students or community partners.

All active faculty members (tenure and non-tenure) whose community collaborations serve as models for outstanding community-engaged learning in higher education are eligible.

Nominations should be submitted online and include:

• Nominator’s information, including name and information
• Nominee’s information, if different from nominator’s
• Nominee’s CV
• Narrative description, including:
  • An explanation of how the nominee will use the award money to deepen, sustain or strengthen the community partnership
  • A description of the nominee’s involvement in the specified community-engaged partnership and how that partnership demonstrates the criteria of the award
    • Shared/collaborative decision-making that incorporates community voice and reciprocity into the design, implementation and evaluation of the project, course or research
    • Community capacity building
    • Integrating community-engaged student learning outcomes into course or research design and delivery
    • Planning for sustaining the community partnership
• Community Partner information, including:
  • Organization name
  • Primary contact
  • Email address
  • City, state and country
  • Website
  • How long the partnership has existed
• Letters of support/collaboration from:
  • community partner(s) (if being nominated by someone other than a community partner)
  • student(s) (if being nominated by someone other than a student)