President's Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Award

Description

The President's Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Award recognizes Texas Tech faculty or faculty-staff teams for an exemplary project or activity that addresses an important community need and/or creates solutions to larger societal issues based on mutually beneficial partnerships with communities. "Communities" are broadly defined as any group of people affiliated by shared characteristics (such as geographical proximity, special interests, similar circumstances, needs, or values). The award is bestowed for a longer-term project or activity and recognizes the depth and scope of the university-community partnerships involved as well as the profound resulting impacts on both the community and the university (faculty, staff, or students). The award will go to the highest ranked faculty-led project/activity in each of the following categories: Community Engaged Research, Community Engaged Creative Activity, Community Engaged Teaching.

The award carries a monetary prize of $2,000 per category. Funds may go to an individual or a project team. The award recipients will be recognized as at Texas Tech's annual Engaged Scholarship Symposium as well as the annual Faculty Honors Convocation. 

Criteria

The President's Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Awards Program recognizes an individual faculty member or teams of faculty members for a project or activity that meets the following criteria: 

•  The project/initiative was developed to address a significant community need or larger societal issue.
• It is based on a sustained, reciprocal relationship with one or several community partners.
• The partnership applies both discipline-specific and community-based knowledge in mutually beneficial ways to address the need or societal issue. There is evidence of shared decision-making and community input/voice in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the project/initiative.
• The project/initiative has resulted in significant positive impacts on communities and the university (faculty, staff, and/or students).
• The project/activity has generated scholarship in the form of publications, presentations, reports, policies, or other publicly disseminated products or materials. 

Eligibility

• Eligible projects or activities must be led by a TTU faculty member or group of TTU faculty members and must include at least one non-academic community partner.
• By the application due date, the lead faculty member(s) involved in the project must: 
  • be in compliance with all training and employment requirements for the university and state;
  • been continuously employed at TTU as a benefits-eligible employee for at least three full years; and
  • not have received the award in the past two years.

 

To apply, click the Apply button below to apply through our InfoReady site. You will be asked to sign in with your eRaider credentials, then scroll down and click on "2026 President's Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Award."

Deadline for applications: February 13, 2026

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The Outreach & Engagement Awards Ceremony will take place on April 13, 2026, at the National Ranching Heritage Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.