Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA

Supporting the Profession
Award Type: national

This award, named for a past Chair of the NASPA Board of Directors (1958-1959) and former Chief Student Affairs Officer at the University of Illinois, honors a NASPA member who has served in leadership roles at the state, regional, national, or international levels of NASPA, and who has had, at minimum, ten continuous years of NASPA membership. The Fred Turner Award is NASPA’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award; each recipient has brought honor and dignity to the student affairs profession, and to NASPA as an association, for a sustained period of time.

The 2025 Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA is accepting nominations from July 31, 2024 through October 9, 2024.

NOMINATE

Award Criteria

  • Minimum of ten continuous years of NASPA membership. All nominees should have at least ten years of NASPA membership.

  • Engagement with NASPA. Evaluated by breadth and depth of engagement across multiple opportunities within NASPA.

  • Establishes a culture of engagement with NASPA as foundational to professional development within the home institution. Evaluated by illustrations of encouragement and support for both individual colleague and institutional engagement with NASPA.

  • Involvement in multiple branches in Constituent Groups (e.g., Regions, Knowledge Communities, Divisions and Groups) and/or volunteer opportunities (e.g., Conference Committees, Faculty, Journal Boards) of the association over a sustained period of time. Evaluated by engagement with a number of Constituent Groups and/or volunteer opportunities within NASPA.

2024 Current Recipient

Past Recipients

2014 | Susan Batchelor Adams
2013 | Elizabeth Griego
2012 | Kari Ellingson
2011 | Janet E. Walbert
2009 | Renee Barnett Terry
2008 | Theresea A. Powell
2007 | Karen L. Pennington
2006 | Cheryl Callahan
2005 | Marjorie Van Vooren
2004 | Shannon E. Ellis
2003 | Penelope Wilis
2002 | Doris M. Ching
2002 | Laurence N. Smith
2001 | Kurt Keppler
2000 | David A. Ambler
2000 | Joan Claar

1999 | William L. "Bud" Thomas
1998 | James E. Scott
1997 | John L. Blackburn
1996 | Elizabeth Nuss
1995 | Frederick Preston
1994 | George W. Young
1993 | Sue D. Weitz
1992 | Thomas Goodale
1991 | Larry H. Ebbers
1990 | Wayne Carlisle
1989 | Judith M. Chambers
1988 | Dorothy J. Keller
1987 | Peggy Elder
1986 | John J. Koldus
1985 | E.T. Buchanan III
1985 | Mickell O'Donnell


1984 | Donald V. Adams
1983 | Arthur Sandeen
1983 | Mildred K. Carlson
1982 | Alice R. Manicur
1981 | Channing M. Briggs
1980 | James R. Appleton
1980 | James J. Rhatigan
1979 | Carl W. Knox
1978 | Preston Parr
1977 | Chester E. Peters
1976 | Earle W. Clifford
1975 | Jack C. Clevenger
1975 | Richard Hulet
1974 | Peter Armacost
1972 | John E. Hocutt
1972 | Donald DuShane
1972 | O.D. Roberts