Nomination Deadline for 2025 Awards: Friday, December 13, 2024

The Rainville Team Excellence Award recognizes teams who are mission-driven and passionate, and exemplify collaborative and authentic leadership in their work on campus. These teams engage in open communication, perseverance, resilience, crucial conversations, problem-solving, and adapting to changes as well as challenges. Team Excellence illustrates taking group values and implementing them for the common goal.

Team Nomination Criteria

General

• The team must be 90% undergraduates currently enrolled in at least 6 credits
• In good standing with the University

Specific

• The team may include 2-10+ students and examples include a program committee, a student organization, ad hoc work group or athletic team
• The team should have effective leadership that encompasses a clear purpose and common goal. Additionally, the team should have collaborative teamwork efforts, effective communication, cohesive commitment, take initiative, and foster inclusivity, trust, and respect.
• The team should have a lasting positive impact on both its members and the broader community by fostering growth and a sense of belonging, through meaningful contributions and collaborative initiatives.

Note: The quantity of nominations a team receives does not affect the team’s candidacy. One nomination is sufficient.