{"id":1469,"date":"2024-08-16T19:56:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville-draft\/?page_id=1469"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:46:02","slug":"student-nomination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/student-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominate a Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nomination Deadline for 2026 Awards: Friday, December 12, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-tabs-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-tabs  \">\n<section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>Student Leadership Award<\/h1>\n\n<p>The Maureen McDermott Student Leadership Award recognizes a student who contributes positively to the community, empowers others, and inspires those around them. They need not hold a leadership position; rather, they demonstrate outstanding leadership skills and role model inclusive and ethical leadership in their actions. Scroll for nomination form below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Undergraduate student enrolled in a degree program full time both semesters (Fall and Spring) during the academic year they are nominated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In good standing with the University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA at the time of application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Specific<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Student does not have to hold a leadership position in the group<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student makes significant contribution to their club\/group that moves the organization forward<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student\u2019s contribution makes a positive impact on the University community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student demonstrates outstanding leadership skills, empowers others, inspires a shared vision, role models inclusive and ethical leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>Servant Leadership Award<\/h1>\n\n<p>The Robert L. Carothers ecognizes a student who supports the growth of others and the community by embodying the tenets of the Servant Leadership Model (Greenleaf, 1977). Students in this category demonstrate a long-term commitment to making a positive and measurable impact related to a specific cause or social issue that affects URI, RI and\/or the global community. Their practice of leadership develops other leaders and encourages others to serve. Scroll for nomination form below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Undergraduate student enrolled in a degree program full time both semesters (Fall and Spring) during the academic year they are nominated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In good standing with the University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA at the time of application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Specific<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Demonstrates a long-term commitment to making a positive and measurable impact related to a specific cause or social issue that affects URI, RI and\/or the global community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demonstrates the 10 Characteristics of a Servant Leader (Spears, 2010) in practice including: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of the people, and building community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applies the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenleaf.org\/what-is-servant-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Servant Leadership Model (Greenleaf, 1977)<\/a>&nbsp;to their practice of leadership in a way that develops other leaders and encourages others to serve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-tab \"><h1>Student Employee Excellence Award<\/h1>\n\n<p>Recognizes a student&#8217;s contributions that provide a positive impact on the University community through their campus employment. They make a significant contribution to the work environment, consistently providing quality service to others, and demonstrating outstanding employment traits. Scroll for nomination form below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Undergraduate student enrolled in a degree program full time both semesters (Fall and Spring) during the academic year they are nominated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In good standing with the University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA at the time of application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Specific<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Student must be salaried employee working on-campus (work study or institutional pay)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student must have worked for at least one semester by April 2025 and for more than four hours per week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student makes a significant contribution to work environment and moves group forward in goals and mission<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student\u2019s work contribution makes a positive impact on the University community and student consistently provides quality service to others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student demonstrates excellent or outstanding employment traits such as honesty, credibility, punctuality, focus, responsibility, professionalism, strong conflict management skills, organizational skills, and supervisory skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomination Deadline for 2026 Awards: Friday, December 12, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1469\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rainville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}