The Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Student Award acknowledges a graduate student who aims to better connect campus and community through service-learning, engaged teaching, or leading and participating in community-based research while addressing community-identified issues. The Excellence in Civic Engagement Undergraduate Award recipient will be honored for excelling in the following areas:
Impact of Engaged Scholarship Within the Community: the nominee demonstrates engaged scholarship through their knowledge and contributions to community issues while also appreciating the knowledge and talents of those in the community. The nominee demonstrates ability and commitment to work collaboratively across and within community contexts and structures to achieve a civic aim.
Encouragement of Others in Engaged Scholarship: the nominee strives to include others in their engaged scholarship through their dedication, execution, teaching and accessibility of engaged scholarship. The nominee also promotes others’ engagement with diversity.
Fostering Collaboration: the nominee helps creates reciprocal and mutually beneficial partnerships with community organizations through innovative and sustainable contributions and recognizes the importance of sharing ownership in implementing critical group tasks.
Understanding of Community and Social Issues: the nominee has an understanding and profound respect of the organization, culture, system and civic and social issues connected to their service.
Award winners receive a $400 one-time scholarship.
2024: Sadie Dempsey and Becky Rose
2023: Talia Cohen, Jules Reynolds, Kao Lee Yang
2022: Orion Risk
2021: Mirva Johnson
2020: Rachel Byington
2019: Marlo Reeves
2018: Giselle Martinez Negrette
2017: Karina Virrueta
2016: Julisa Ventura
2015: Jose Vergara
2014: Lihlani Skipper
2013: Ashleigh Ross
2012: Dadit Hidayat
2011: Catherine Willis
> ENGAGED ALUMNI AWARD
> EXCELLENCE IN ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
> FRED RISSER EXCELLENCE IN ENGAGED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
> GINSBERG FAMILY AWARD
> LOUIS KORENMAN BADGER VOLUNTEERS AWARD
> NEWMAN CIVIC FELLOWSHIP
> STUDENT ACTIVISM AWARD
Any questions or concerns? Email: jramirez27@wisc.edu.
2025 Recipient Molly Clark-Barol
Molly has had extensive collaboration points with FREE, a statewide community organizing network of women impacted by the criminal justice system.
From her nominator: “Ms. Clark-Barol exhibits a very high level of understanding of community and social issues, taking time to understand complex organizational, cultural, systemic, and civic dimensions of mass incarceration and reproductive justice…Of note, I have been especially impressed by all the external funding Ms. Clark-Barol has helped FREE secure through grant writing.”
As shared by an organizer with FREE: “Molly has taught me so much since I started as the Dane Co. Community Organizer for FREE Movement. There were a lot of things that I did not know when coming into this position such as the process of strategic planning for our causes and issues, but through this past year Molly showed up for me in many ways, always letting me know too, that she is always here to help me. I am looking forward to learning more from her as we move forward in our work.”