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| UCEA
Awards Program >> The Excellence in
Educational Leadership Award |
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The
Excellence in Educational Leadership Award
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| The Excellence in Educational
Leadership Award is an annual recognition for practicing
school administrators who have made significant
contributions to the improvement of administrator
preparation. Each year, the UCEA Executive Committee
invites member university faculties to select a
distinguished school administrator who has an exemplary
record of supporting school administrator preparation
efforts. This is an unusual award in that it affords
national recognition, but the recipients are selected
by individual universities. It provides a unique
mechanism for UCEA universities to build good will
and recognize the contributions of practitioners
to the preparation of junior professionals.
A call for award recipients is requested annually
from member universities, normally by January
15. The UCEA Plenum Representatives should consult
her/his colleagues and other constituencies designated
by faculty to establish procedures leading to
the identification of a worthy recipient at each
university. Clearly, universities may choose not
to make an award every year. To nominate a recipient
the Plenum Representative or Dean of the College
of Education should send, by April 1, the following
packet to UCEA:
- a cover letter with a brief description
of the recipient's professional background,
- information supporting the selection
of the candidate (including vita),
- stamped envelopes addressed to news
agencies targeted by the Plenum Representative
for disseminating the announcement. (The
envelopes are an option which are required
only if the university wants UCEA to make
a press announcement. The university may
choose to coordinate this through its
public relations office so that the announcement
can include details about the presentation,
etc.)
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After April 1 of each year, the Executive
Director provides the UCEA certificates of recognition
to universities who have designated a recipient.
The UCEA staff will mail out press releases (if
requested); publish the names of recipients and
their sponsoring UCEA university in the UCEA Review;
and place recipients on the UCEA mailing list for
one year. Plenum Representatives, or their designees
at each member university, are responsible for making
the award presentation at an annual departmental,
college, or university ceremony. Funds to support
this recognition were donated to UCEA by the Network
of University Community School Districts, a consortium
of school districts in university towns.
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