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Student Involvement

Golden Leadership Award

The Center for Student Involvement is implementing a new leadership award program, The Golden Leadership Award, which will honor students for their hard work, dedication and leadership in our community. At the beginning of each month, Students, faculty and staff can nominate Truman students to receive the Golden Leadership Award.

The Truman Golden Leadership Award will evaluate four categories: (1) campus involvement, (2) academic achievement, (3) community involvement, and (4) work experience.

  • Campus Involvement: As student involvement is crucial to a thriving campus, the Truman Golden Leadership Award will evaluate the nominee's involvement in university sponsored organizations. Campus involvement criteria will not necessarily be met by the number of organizations that a nominee participates in, but rather by the amount of time spent on campus involvement and the quality of the nominee's involvement.
  • Academic Achievement: Because the purpose of college is to become educated, the Selection Committee will evaluate the students' performance in the classroom. The nominee's academic achievement will primarily be measure by the maintaining of grade point average. In addition, students will be evaluated on a faculty reference (If the nominator is a faculty member, this reference must be from a different faculty member).
  • Community Involvement: Involvement and service in the community is also an important aspect that the Truman Golden Leadership Award will consider. The community involvement will be measured by the quality of the programs that the nominee participates in, a consistent trend of volunteer work, and the number of hours that the nominee spends volunteering their time.
  • Work Experience: On-campus work experience, although not mandatory, is an important part of a student's experience at Truman, and therefore will also be evaluated by the Selection Committee. However, if the nominee does not work on-campus, they will not be penalized, but they will only be judged on the other three criteria. Work experience will not be evaluated by the number of hours worked, but by the quality of work performed.

Nomination Restrictions

  • Nominations for month's recipient will begin on the first and continue thru to the end of the month. Nomination forms can be picked up in the CSI.
  • Alternatively the nomination form can be downloaded (Word document) or filled out online
  • Once a person has been nominated they will need to come to the CSI to pick up an application packet which will be due at a later time.
  • The award will be presented at the Leadership Recognition Banquet held next spring. All of the nominees, nominators, and the Golden Leadership Award recipients will be invited to the banquet.
  • For more information contact Rachelle Williams at the Center for Student Involvement (785-4222) or email at csilead@truman.edu.