Region VI Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean/Vice President

Region VI
Application Deadline: June 20, 2025 | Award Type: regional

The Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean/Vice President, named in honor of NASPA’s founding Chair of the Board of Directors (1919-1920), is presented to a Dean/Vice President who has demonstrated sustained professional achievement in student affairs work, innovative response in meeting students' needs, effectiveness in developing staff, and leadership in campus affairs. Nominees must also have earned stature among and the support of students, faculty, and fellow administrators on campus, sustained professional service and leadership within NASPA, and significant contributions to the field through publications or involvement in professional associations. 

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

 

Award Criteria

Required

  • Serves as home institution’s Chief Student Affairs Officer

  • Seen as collaborative, effective, and inspirational by a range of campus constituencies

  • Strategic and innovative in providing programs and services to students

  • High level of competency in developing staff

  • Active individual NASPA membership

  • Current employment at, or recently retired from, an institution of higher education with an institutional NASPA membership in NASPA Region VI

 

Preferred

  • Exemplary managerial and administrative skills

  • Extended length of service to the student affairs profession and as a Chief Student Affairs Officer

  • Leadership in greater campus and community affairs

  • Significant contributions to literature about student affairs and higher education

  • Significant contributions to professional associations

 

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

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

2024 – No Nomination/No Candidate Selected

2023 – Lisa Cooper Wilkins, City College of San Francisco

2022 – No Nomination/No Candidate Selected

2021 – Diane LeGree, University of California, San Diego

2020 – Allison Jerome, Chaminade University of Honolulu

2019 – Lorena Checa, California State University, San Marcos

2019 – Harry Le Grande, California State University, Fullerton

2018 – Berenecea Johnson Eanes, California State University, Fullerton

2017 – Audrey Yamagata-Noji

2016 – Henry Gee, Rio Hondo College

2015 – No Nomination/No Candidate Selected

2014 – No Nomination/No Candidate Selected

2013 – Lori M. Ideta, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2012 – No Nomination/No Candidate Selected

2011 – Wm. Gregory Sawyer, California State University, Channel Islands

2010 – Robert L. Palmer, Jr., California State University, Fullerton

2009 – Joanna Royce-Davis, University of the Pacific

2008 – Douglas R. Freer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

2007 – Michael Jackson, University of California, Los Angeles

2006 – Renee Barnett-Terry, University of California, San Diego

2005 – Shirley Jennings, Pima Community College

2004 – Robert J. Naples, University of California, Los Angeles

2003 – Sandra Hubler, Menlo College

2002 – Edward Shenk, Napa Valley Community College

2001 – Loydene Keith, California State University, Fullerton

2000 – Judith Chambers, University of the Pacific

1999 – Lois Bartholomew, Chandler-Gilbert Community College 

1998 – Alan Yang, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa • 1997 – Sally Peterson, University of California, Irvine