Region V Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean

This award is conferred upon a professional who has served as a Senior Student Affairs Officer for more than 15 years and has made exemplary contributions to the student affairs profession. This award honors NASPA’s founding Board Chair (1919-20) and former dean of men at the University of Wisconsin. Recipients demonstrate the following: 

• sustained professional service and leadership within NASPA;

• exemplary managerial and administrative skills;

• merited stature among and support of students, faculty, and fellow administrators on the campus served;

• strategic and innovative response in meeting varied and emerging needs of a campus;

• effectiveness in the development of junior staff members;

• significant contributions to the field through publications and involvement in multiple professional associations; and

• collaborative, effective and inspirational leadership in university and community affairs.

 

For national award consideration, nominees must meet the following 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

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