Region VI Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award

Application Deadline: September 8, 2024 | Award Type: regional

The Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award honors a member with at least five (5) years of experience as a full-time in student affairs professional who has made significant contributions to their campus, the profession, and NASPA. Nominees must also demonstrate expertise in creating campus environments that promote student learning and development, and have professional responsibility for the direction, oversight, and/or supervision of one or more student affairs functional areas and/or one or more professional staff members.

Recipient will receive a one year complimentary NASPA membership at the NASPA Member Institutional rate.

 

Award Criteria:

Required

  • Professional responsibility for the direction, oversight, and/or supervision of one or more student affairs functional areas, and/or one or more professional staff members

  • A minimum of five (5) years of experience as a full-time student affairs professional at an institution of higher education with an institutional NASPA membership in Region VI

  • Record of innovative programming that has had an impact on the home campus environment in one or more functional areas of student affairs

  • Volunteer service to the association via leadership roles at the state, regional, national, or international levels

  • Active individual NASPA membership

  • Current employment at an institution of higher education within NASPA Region VI

 

Preferred

Progression from entry-level to senior-level leadership roles within NASPA’s volunteer rank

 

Questions? Contact Lexer Chou, Nominations and Awards Chair, at [email protected].

Presented By

Region VI

Nomination Guidelines

Nominating someone is easy! One person should coordinate the submission and follow these steps.

  • STEP 1: Write a letter of nomination
  • STEP 2: Collect two (2) letters of support or endorsement.
  • STEP 3: The person coordinating the nomination should gather the nomination materials then go online to submit. You must upload all of the information at the same time. This person should then submit the nomination letter, letters of support online.
  • STEP 4: Submit the nomination by the published deadline!

Questions? Contact Lexer Chou, Nominations and Awards Chair, at [email protected].

Nomination form »

Past Recipients - Region VI Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award

2024 – Andrew Hua, University of California, San Diego

2023 – Jennifer Māhealani Ah Sing Quirk, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2022 – Mike Ho, Paradise Valley Community College

2021 – Alisa Flowers, California State University, Fullerton

2020 – Marcus Rodriguez, Occidental College

2019 – Vincent Vigil, California State University, Fullerton

2018 – Jennifer Pagala-Barnett, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2017 – Klint Jaramillo

2016 – Laura Igram-Edwards, Biola University

2015 – Elizabeth Zavala, California State University, Fullerton

2014 – Chris Hutchinson, Chapman University

2013 – Ginger Reyes, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

2012 – Joy Hoffman, Whittier College

2011 – Serjio Acevedo, University of the Pacific

2010 – Faraah Mullings, Mount St. Mary’s College

2009 – César Figueroa, University of California, San Diego

2008 – Christine Quemuel, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2007 – Mylon Kirksy, University of the Pacific

2006 – Cedric Hackett, Santa Monica College and California State University, Northridge

2005 – No Nomination/No Candidate Selected

2004 – Kenneth Kelly, California State University, Long Beach