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Provost’s Award for High Impact Experiential Learning

Nomination Deadline: 
January 22, 2025

Overview

The Provost’s Award has been reimagined to recognize excellence in the development, delivery, accessibility, and outcomes of high-impact and interdisciplinary experiences that engage NC State students, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional populations.

High Impact Experiences, a key focus of NC State’s Quality Enhancement Plan, are defined by several criteria: (1) they consistently engage participants at a deep level, (2) they offer formal or informal mentoring and opportunities for collaborative work, (3) they prioritize access, inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing throughout, (4) they require students to critically reflect on, discuss, connect, and apply new skills, knowledge, and perspectives, and (5) they provide reflective or public opportunities for students to demonstrate how these experiences have helped them integrate and apply their learning to real-world problems and their own lives.

This award is designed to recognize and support the growth and delivery of exceptional programs that offer such experiences. The selected program will receive a monetary grant of $12,500 to support its further development.

Criteria and Eligibility

This award is open to programs that provide High Impact Experiences to any NC State student population. Eligible programs must align with the definitions of High Impact Experiences outlined in the overview. These experiences can be either credit-generating or non-credit-generating. Given that High Impact Experiences are often interdisciplinary by nature, programs incorporating interdisciplinary elements are encouraged to highlight these aspects.

Programs may be led by individuals or groups of full-time faculty (0.75 FTE or greater) in tenure or professional tracks, or by teams that include both faculty and staff. Teams may consist of members from different colleges or units, as well as external collaborators, with a maximum team size of five. However, they should clearly identify the institute, college, or division that serves as their primary point of affiliation.

A specific initiative or team may only win this award once every 5 years.

Award and Recognition

The university recipient(s) will receive a monetary grant of $12,500. The award recipient(s) will be honored at the University Teaching Awards Luncheon and Ceremony, with the recipient(s) featured in NC State media.

Renomination

A nomination may be resubmitted for the next award cycle if the nominee has not been selected as a recipient of this award. Renominations are not automatic. They must be resubmitted with updates that reflect the current year of nomination, confirmation of continued support from the writers of support letters, and any information regarding awards, accolades, projects, publications, or other activities completed after the submission of last year’s nominations.

Nomination and Submission Guidelines

Nomination Submission Deadline:
January 22, 2025

Nominations for completed projects that provide demonstrable evidence of enhanced student learning for one academic year for the academic year 2024-25 or earlier will be accepted.

Nomination Package Submission
Required Documents
Please create PDF files for each document contained in the nomination package

  • Link to the course, project, or body of work website. If this is a Moodle course that requires login, please contact Internal Faculty Awards Coordinator, Sherry Bailey, at sbbailey@ncsu.edu who will coordinate with DELTA to obtain anonymous login credentials for project reviewers.
  • Brief Description of the High Impact Experience: This should include an overview of its history, structure, and organization, along with a timeline and procedures. Additionally, outline the student population(s) involved and the intended goals of the experience. Please limit this section to a maximum of two pages.
  • Biographies of Key Program Developers and Leaders: Provide biographies for the major program developers and leaders, including their titles, qualifications, roles in the program, relevant experiences, and any related publications or awards. Include information for no more than five key individuals, with a limit of one page per person.
  • Description of Program Impacts: This document should include both qualitative and quantitative information, along with examples of specific outputs. It should provide evidence of how the program meets the definitions of High Impact Experiences outlined above. Additionally, any interdisciplinary aspects of the program should be highlighted. Maximum 5 pages.
  • Two letters from former student program participants supporting the project’s nomination. 1 page for each letter, submitted as one combined pdf.
  • Two letters of support from peers or leaders, one of which must come from an individual in a leadership role within the institute, college, or division primarily affiliated with the program. Each letter should be a maximum of two pages, submitted as one combined pdf.
  • Required nominee information. Use this submission worksheet as a guide to prepare for online submission.

Nomination Package Submission Process

NOTE: Each college determines its own deadline for submissions to its college-level review committee to allow time for review and submission to the university-level review committee.  Contact your Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the college review committee schedule.

Administrative Advisory Committee

The Provost’s Award for High Impact Experiential Learning Administrative Advisory Committee members include:

  • One representative from each of the 10 degree-granting colleges and University College. Committee members will be appointed by the provost upon the recommendation of their respective deans. Members of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers are preferred.
  • Chair or designee representative of the Committee on the Evaluation of Teaching
  • One student representative from the Committee on the Evaluation of Teaching
  • Representative from the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs
  • Representative from Packways: Learning by Doing Unit
  • President of the Graduate Student Association or a GSA designee
  • President of the Student Body or Student Government designee

The Provost’s Award for High Impact Experiential Learning Administrative Advisory Committee meeting is TBD.