'Awards Season' Takes on New Meaning for SNC
Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer
Issue date: 2/8/10 Section: News
With the Golden Globes in mid-January, the Grammy results still being blogged about, and the Oscars coming up in early March, there's no doubt about it: It is awards season. Here in De Pere, we're doing it SNC style. Now, I don't mean the red carpet, celebrity-gossip, Versace kind of awards. You won't see Taylor Swift walking in front of Boyle Hall or Robert Downey Jr. playing Sherlock in JMS. What you will see is a couple of new Facebook invites, posters in the Campus Center and kiosks set up in front of the Caf to promote nominating. Why all the hubbub? Because for SNC's 30th Annual Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards, you don't just get to watch and see who wins, you get to help decide.
Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs, the Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards "recognize selfless devotion to improving St. Norbert College and the greater community, to going above and beyond in appreciating human differences, to establishing connections between students, faculty and staff, and to living the College mission."
The benefits of public recognition and awards can be great, often resulting in more productivity, communication and satisfaction in a community. Junior Bryant Scherer, an award winner from last year, said, "When I received a nomination for my award I felt really grateful that someone had noticed all the hard work that I had done over the semester. Winning really wasn't important to me because just being nominated was great. That's why it is important to nominate those individuals that you know that go above and beyond. We all know they would do positive things anyway but why not give them the recognition they deserve."
Nomination forms are now open online for student, staff and faculty awards. If you've been positively impacted by a classmate, RA, professor, boss, office worker or someone else on campus, now is the time to show them how much they are appreciated by nominating them for a Student Life or Educator of the Year award. New this year is the Beloved Community Award, which will be given annually to "one student and one faculty or staff member who has actively worked to make the St. Norbert community a more just, equitable environment, for more of our members, fulfilling the vision of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Beloved Community.'" Feel like you've done a pretty great job yourself? If you're an SNC sophomore, junior or senior, you can apply for the Awards of Distinction, which feature certificates, cash awards and scholarships.
So, while you won't see celebs in couture around campus this awards season, you just might catch a glimpse of Dr. Tom Bolin, associate professor of religious studies, and Julie Massey, director of Campus Ministry and Faith, Learning and Vocation, in their own personal best, hosting the Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards on April 24.
Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards: April 24, 2010 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Union Lounge
For more information and to nominate, check out the Awards website at http://www.snc.edu/studentawards/.
Nomination deadline for student awards: February 12
Application deadline for Awards of Distinction: February 22
Nomination deadline for staff/faculty awards: February 24
Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs, the Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards "recognize selfless devotion to improving St. Norbert College and the greater community, to going above and beyond in appreciating human differences, to establishing connections between students, faculty and staff, and to living the College mission."
The benefits of public recognition and awards can be great, often resulting in more productivity, communication and satisfaction in a community. Junior Bryant Scherer, an award winner from last year, said, "When I received a nomination for my award I felt really grateful that someone had noticed all the hard work that I had done over the semester. Winning really wasn't important to me because just being nominated was great. That's why it is important to nominate those individuals that you know that go above and beyond. We all know they would do positive things anyway but why not give them the recognition they deserve."
Nomination forms are now open online for student, staff and faculty awards. If you've been positively impacted by a classmate, RA, professor, boss, office worker or someone else on campus, now is the time to show them how much they are appreciated by nominating them for a Student Life or Educator of the Year award. New this year is the Beloved Community Award, which will be given annually to "one student and one faculty or staff member who has actively worked to make the St. Norbert community a more just, equitable environment, for more of our members, fulfilling the vision of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Beloved Community.'" Feel like you've done a pretty great job yourself? If you're an SNC sophomore, junior or senior, you can apply for the Awards of Distinction, which feature certificates, cash awards and scholarships.
So, while you won't see celebs in couture around campus this awards season, you just might catch a glimpse of Dr. Tom Bolin, associate professor of religious studies, and Julie Massey, director of Campus Ministry and Faith, Learning and Vocation, in their own personal best, hosting the Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards on April 24.
Norbertine Leadership and Service Awards: April 24, 2010 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Union Lounge
For more information and to nominate, check out the Awards website at http://www.snc.edu/studentawards/.
Nomination deadline for student awards: February 12
Application deadline for Awards of Distinction: February 22
Nomination deadline for staff/faculty awards: February 24
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