"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Purpose: To recognize CLAS staff members for humanitarian, civic, or other service to the community that is performed on a volunteer basis.
*Community: University of Iowa, local, regional, national, international.
Objective: CLAS embraces the philosophy that each individual can make a difference in the quality of life of others through voluntary acts of service. The Community Leadership And Service nomination program provides a means to recognize and encourage individual voluntary contributions to the community.
Goals:| • | Promote, value, and celebrate individual contribution to the public good by recognizing CLAS staff contribution to the community. |
| (Engagement Goal – Iowa Promise) | |
| • | Enhance the sense of community and pride within CLAS. |
| • | Reaffirm the College’s service mission and partnerships with the public. |
| (Goal V – CLAS Strategic Plan) |
Criteria: Recipients of the CLAS Award are CLAS staff members who have volunteered to enhance the quality of life of the community through:
• Contributions of time and talent
• Leadership
• Advancements or Innovation
• Service
Nominees will be considered on humanitarian, civic, or other service to the community.
Note: Service must be external to the candidate’s primary University responsibilities and performed without remuneration.
Eligibility: Full-time and part-time (at least 50% effort) budgeted CLAS staff are eligible to be nominated for volunteer acts of service that are taking place during the current fiscal year and/or took place last fiscal year. Prior to completing the nomination form, please obtain permission from the nominee.
We encourage ongoing nominations. Nominations received by March 1st annually will be listed on the CLAS Staff Recognition Committee website and nominees will be honored at the CLAS Staff Recognition Reception in the Spring.
Please contact Nancy Fick, Director of CLAS Human Resources, at 335-0016 with questions.