George D. Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research

Supporting the Profession Faculty

Award Type: national

Named in 2011 for the Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, this award honors an individual who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to research and scholarship related to higher education. Throughout their career, the honoree’s work should address important and substantial issues, and have had a significant or transformative effect on higher education and student affairs practice in a national or international context.

Any NASPA member may nominate an individual for this award. Nominations for this award are also solicited from the NASPA Board of Directors.

Nominations have closed for the 2024 George D. Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research. The application for 2025 will open in August of 2024.

2024 Current Recipients

2024 | Jillian Kinzie

Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute
Indiana University School of Education

Award Criteria

Required

Exceptional contributions to student affairs through sustained research and scholarship
Issues addressed in research and scholarship have to be important and substantive
Impact of research must have long-term implications for higher education at the national or international level

Preferred

Active individual NASPA membership

Past Recipients

2023 | Gavin W. Henning

Professor of Higher Education
New England College

2022 | John Wesley Lowery

George D. Kuh Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research Award

Professor of Student Affairs in Higher Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

2021 | Mary Howard-Hamilton

2021 | George D. Kuh Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research Award

Coffman Distinguished Research Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Leadership
Indiana State University

2020 | George S. McClellan

2020 George D. Kuh Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research Award

Associate Professor, Higher Education
University of Mississippi

2020 | Lori Patton Davis

2020 George D. Kuh Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research Award

Chair, Department of Educational Studies and Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs
The Ohio State University

2018 | Marcia Baxter Magolda

Professor Emeritus
Miami University (Ohio)

2017 | Vincent Tinto

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Syracuse University

2017 | Annemarie Vaccaro

Associate Professor
University of Rhode Island

2016 | David A. Longanecker

President
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

2015 | Elizabeth Whitt

Vice Provost and Dean
University of California - Merced

2014 | Samuel Museus

Associate Professor of Higher Education
University of Denver

2013 | Marilee J. Bresciani
2012 | Jane Fried
2011 | Gregory S. Blimling
2010 | Jon Dalton
2010 | Shaun Harper
2009 | Vasti Torres
2007 | Kathleen Manning
2006 | Susan R. Komives
2005 | Gary M. Pavela
2004 | Melvin C. Terrell
2003 | Roger B. Winston
2001 | Marylu McEwen
2000 | Arthur C. Sandeen
1999 | Ernie Suggs

1998 | Don Hossler
1997 | Barbara E. Bender
1996 | M. Lee Upcraft
1995 | Patrick T. Terenzini
1994 | Arthur E. Levine
1993 | C. Robert Pace
1992 | John H. Schuh
1991 | Jacqueline Fleming
1990 | Ursula Delworth
1989 | Nancy K. Schlossberg
1988 | Ernest T. Pascarella
1987 | George D. Kuh
1986 | Margaret J. Barr
1985 | Donald D. Gehring

1985 | Parker Young
1984 | John M. Whiteley
1983 | C. Gilbert Wrenn
1982 | Jossey-Bas Publishers
1981 | Howard R. Bowen
1980 | Burns B. Crookston*
1978 | Kate Hevner Mueller
1977 | Change Magazine
1977 | Ruth Strang*
1976 | Alexander and Helen Astin
1975 | Theodore M. Newcomb
1975 | R. Nevitt Sanford
1972 | K. Patricia Cross
1968 | E.G. Williamson