Awards & Honours

Program and Marketing Awards

An annual competition is held to recognize innovation and excellence for both marketing materials and program development in a number of categories.

Marketing Awards

Program Awards

Honourary Membership

Persons nominated for Honourary Membership must be individuals who have contributed to the objectives of CAUCE. Previous decisions regarding Honourary Membership have tended to interpret contribution or service in the light of national or regional impact and not solely on the basis of local accomplishments.

Nominations shall include biographical data and an outline of the nominee's contribution to continuing education generally and to the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education more specifically. The CAUCE Executive will decide on an appropriate recipient(s) at its February meeting and will advise both the nominee and nominator shortly thereafter.

In addition to peer recognition, Honourary Members may attend all CAUCE meetings.

The deadline for nomination for Honourary Membership is March 2, 2012.

Invitation to Nominate 2011-2012 
Nomination Form 2011-2012

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Journal Award

This award recognizes excellence in an item in the Article, Forum, or Reports of Practice categories in the Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education published in the calendar year preceding the Annual General Meeting.  President elect should remind the Editor of the Journal of his or her responsibility for setting up and chairing, in a non-voting capacity, a three-person adjudication committee (with bilingual judging capacity as necessary), whose activities will include review of criteria if warranted.  It may be determined that no award be given in a particular year.

The committee should be formed by February of each year so that the work may be done in March and April.  The winner(s), if any, should be selected by mid-April and advised immediately by the Journal editor so they can plan to attend the Awards Luncheon held during the Annual Conference.  In addition, the Journal Editor should advise the President-Elect of the decision, and send the names of the winner(s), the full title of the article(s) and comments from the adjudication committee to the member of the Executive Committee holding the Awards Committee Liaison portfolio, for inclusion in the Awards Luncheon program.  The President Elect should ensure that an award certificate is prepared for the winner and that the Journal Award is presented at the Awards Luncheon. 

The winners of the 2011 Journal award are Diane Dutton, Susan Burgess and Tom Nesbit for their CJUCE submission: Looking forward by looking back: Determining the value of external program reviews. www.cjuce.ca

The Award Of Recognition

This award, instituted in 1988, is to be given annually if a suitable candidate is nominated by a member university continuing education unit. It may be awarded to a Canadian who is not employed as a professional in university continuing education and who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of continuing education/adult education in Canada . Nominations may only be received from Institutional Members of CAUCE. The deadline for nominations is normally the end of February. 

The 2011-2012 deadline for nomination is February 24, 2012.

CAUCE Research Honours

The CAUCE Research Award recognizes both graduate student research and individuals who have made a sustained contribution to research.

Graduate Student Research Award
The purpose of the award is to recognize a graduate thesis or dissertation that makes a distinct contribution to university continuing education.

Submissions are invited from individuals attending Canadian universities or Canadians attending universities outside of Canada . In order to be eligible, the thesis or dissertation must have been successfully completed (defended) within the previous two calendar years. Theses previously submitted to CAUCE for this award are not eligible for consideration.

The following criteria will be used in evaluating submissions:

• centrality and relevance of the topic to university continuing education ;
• clarity of the thesis statement;
• strength and coherence of the findings/conclusion;
• effectiveness of the organization and style of the presentation.

Applicants must submit:

1. a 500-word statement indicating the relevance of the research to university continuing education;
2. a copy of the dissertation or thesis;
3. at least two supporting letters.

Distinguished Researcher Award
The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual who has made a long-term, sustained contribution to university continuing education research in Canada .

Nominations
Nominations may be made by individuals from CAUCE member institutions. The nomination should elaborate the extent of the contribution made and provide a rationale for the award nomination.

Application for research awards are due to the CAUCE Secretariat via email no later than February 1 of each year.

Please submit your application to:

CAUCE Secretariat, c/o Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, 464-221 Cumberland Avenue North, Saskatoon SK  S7N 1M3, Phone: 306-966-5604, Fax: 306-966-5590, Email: cauce.secretariat@usask.ca

The same general procedures as described for the awarding of research projects will be used in relation to submissions made for the research awards given out at the annual conference. For complete details, please visit the Research Fund webpage
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