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Award Descriptions
Individual Student Awards
Award Qualifications for ALL Student Awards: Candidates must have a 2.5 cumulative grade point average and be in good standing with the University.
Emerging Leader Award
The candidate for this award exemplifies true citizen leadership by engaging in the Longwood community during their first or second year at Longwood and has sought out opportunities to get involved.
Additional Award Qualifications: Candidates must be in their first or second year at Longwood University.
Honor and Integrity Award
A student who exemplifies in a meaningful and purposeful way congruency in their everyday life and embodies honesty and integrity.
Distinguished Contributions Award
The candidate for this award is a senior who has made a distinctive mark through their positive contributions to Longwood and the community throughout his/her tenure at Longwood University.
Additional Award Qualifications: All candidates must be students with one semester or less left at Longwood.
Rotunda Award For Community Building
The candidate for this award has brought together and organization and/or a group of students through their strong sense of cooperation, relationship building and service to Longwood University and/or the surrounding community.
Joan of Arc Visionary Leadership Award
A student who strives in his/her own unique way to achieve a future community of citizen leaders working for the common good of society. The candidate for this award must be an active member of the Longwood community through their leadership and involvement on campus.
Citizen Leader Award
The candidate for this award exemplifies true citizen leadership by demonstrating virtues such as honor, embracing diversity, empathy, generosity, teamwork, social responsibility, and dedication to the common good through his or her service to Longwood and/or the surrounding community.
Outstanding New Commuter
The candidate for this award is a commuter student who during his/her first year at Longwood has made significant contributions to the quality of life for commuter students.
Additional Award Qualifications: Must be a commuter student in his/her first year at the university.
Outstanding Commuter Student
The candidate for this award is a commuter student who through their involvement at Longwood had made significant contributions to the quality of life for commuter students.
Additional Award Qualifications: Must be a commuter student.
Outstanding New Residential Student
The candidate for this award is a residential student who during their first year at Longwood has made significant contributions to the quality of life for the residential community.
Additional Award Qualifications: Must be a residential student in his/her first year at the university.
Outstanding Residential Student
The candidate for this award is a residential student who through their involvement at Longwood has made significant contributions to the quality of life for residential students.
Additional Award Qualifications: Must be a residential student.
Significant Service Award
A student and/or organization whose behavior embraces civic responsibility and service to the community on a local, regional, national or global level. These individuals have given of their time, talent, and efforts to contribute to the common good.
Additional Award Qualifications: The service is outside any required service and if nominating a student organization, the group must be registered and recognized by Longwood.
Graduate Student Citizen Leader Award
The candidate for this award is a current graduate student enrolled at Longwood University who exemplifies true citizen leadership by demonstrating virtues such as honor, embracing diversity, empathy, generosity, teamwork, social responsibility, and dedication to the common good through his/her service to the University.
Additional Award Qualifications: Must be a current graduate student at Longwood University.
Student Organization Awards
Emerging Student Organization Award
A student organization created within the last academic year that has successfully established a positive presence on campus and has made meaningful contributions to Longwood and the surrounding community.
Award Qualifications: Candidate must be a registered student organization and created within the current academic year.
Most Improved Student Organization Award
A student organization that has made significant strides toward achieving its goals/mission and has demonstrated improvement over the past academic year while contributing to Longwood and the surrounding community.
Award Qualifications: Must be a registered student organization with paperwork and other requirements current during the current academic year.
Citizen Leader Organization Award
A student organization that understands and embodies the virtues of honor, embracing diversity, empathy, generosity, teamwork, and social responsibility through their contributions to Longwood and the surrounding community.
Award Qualifications: Must be a registered student organization with paperwork and other requirements current during the current academic year.
Longwood Spirit Organization Award
A student organization that brings spirit and enthusiasm to the Longwood community through their programs and activities.
Award Qualifications: Must be a registered student organization with paperwork and other requirements current during the current academic year.
Faculty/Staff Awards
Outstanding Student Organization Advisor
A faculty or staff member that goes above and beyond their expectations of an advisor, is an integral part of the organization and shows dedication to mission of the organization.
Award Qualifications: Candidates must be a registered faculty/staff advisor for a student organization for the current academic year and being an advisor is not part of their job responsibilities.
Citizen Leader Award
The candidate for this award is a faculty or staff member who exemplifies true citizen leadership by demonstrating virtues such as honor, embracing diversity, empathy, generosity, teamwork, social responsibility, and dedication to the common good through his/her service to the University.
Award Qualifications: Must be a current faculty or staff member.
Student Employment Awards
Student employment is an experience that involves a commitment and an involvement with the Longwood community that is valued by faculty, staff and students. Student employees are a vital resource and provide much of the creativity, energy and enthusiasm that make our departments successful.
The student employment program helps in the development of citizen leaders and prepares students to make positive contributions to the campus, local community and the common good of society.
Student Employee of the Year
The Student Employee of the Year is awarded to an outstanding student in recognition of exceptional contributions to the Student Employment Program at Longwood during the academic year.
Supervisor of the Year
A factor which influences the success of student employment is the quality supervision of student employees. The Supervisor of the Year award is awarded to an outstanding faculty/staff member, who supervises one or more student employees, in appreciation for outstanding service to the Student Employment Program. Student employees nominate candidates for this award.
