2021-2022 NASPA Annual Award Winners
Supporting the Profession
January 12, 2022
We are pleased and honored to announce the recipients of the 2021-2022 NASPA Annual Awards
Presented at the 2022 NASPA Annual Conference, the NASPA Annual Awards recognize a wide range of student affairs professionals from across higher education. NASPA Annual Awardees join the legacy of decades of past recipients, including many of student affairs' and higher education's most transformational leaders. Please join us in congratulating the 2021-2022 NASPA Annual Award winners.
AVP/Senior-Level Student Affairs Professional Award
Marc Shook, Dean of Students and Interim Assistant Vice President for Civil Rights and Title IX, University of South Carolina
Bobby E. Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award
Maria Genao-Homs, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Hamilton College
Doris Michiko Ching Award for Excellence as a Student Affairs Professional
Scott Friedman, Dean of Student Engagement, Moraine Valley Community College
Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA
Shannon Ellis, Vice President for Student Affairs, University of Nevada - Reno
Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award
Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
George D. Kuh Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research Award
John Wesley Lowery, Professor, Student Affairs in Higher Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member
Sharon Fries-Britt, Professor, University of Maryland
Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean*
Lorena Checa, Vice President for Student Affairs, California State University San Marcos
W. Houston Dougharty, Vice President of Student Affairs, Hofstra University
The President's Award
Robert Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign