Emerging Faculty Outreach Award

2024 — Dr. Lena Surzhko-Harned, Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State Behrend
2023 — Dr. Glenn Sterner III, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Division of Social Science, Penn State Abington
2022 — Shaheen Pasha, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
2021 — Dr. Katherine Mclean, Associate Professor, Program Coordinator in Administration of Justice, Penn State Greater Allegheny
2021 Exemplary Distinction — Dr. Kathleen Sexsmith, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Agricultural Sciences
2020 — Dr. Rebecca Tarlau, Assistant Professor, Education, College of Education; Assistant Professor, Labor and Employment Relations, College of Liberal Arts
2019 — Dr. Efrain Marimon, Assistant Professor; Director, Restorative Justice Initiative; Director, Social Justice Fellowship, College of Education
2019 Exemplary Distinction — Pearl Gluck, Assistant Professor, Film-Video; Distinguished Honors Faculty, Schreyer Honors College
2018 — Dr. Kristen P. Goessling, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State Brandywine
2017 — Dr. Carter Hunt, Assistant Professor, Recreation, Parks and Tourism Management, College of Health and Human Development
2016 — Haley Sankey, Lecturer and Adviser, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Established 2015

The Emerging Faculty Outreach Award is supported by the Offices of the Vice President for Outreach and Vice Provost for Online Education in collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs.

General Description

The Emerging Faculty Outreach Award is a University-wide honor that recognizes early-career tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members whose work has significant potential to advance engaged scholarship through teaching, research, and/or service. Their engaged scholarship work shows significant potential to influence societal issues on local, regional, or national levels.

The goal of the award is to help early-career tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members build a lifetime of leadership in engaged scholarship work. The Emerging Faculty Outreach Award features an award of $1,000.

Eligibility and Submission Materials

All Penn State tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members are eligible for this award. The award is designed to recognize emerging engaged scholarship work, rather than long-established projects. The award recipient’s work must have an established interest in the area or community that the award recipient seeks to benefit through the engaged scholarship effort. At a minimum, the award recipient will have laid the foundation for his/her work and established relationships with partnering organizations.

The following information should be included in the nomination dossier:

A completed Emerging Faculty Outreach Award form (DOC).
A curriculum vitae focused on information relevant to the award (one-page limit).
Two letters of support from University faculty, staff, or students; one letter must be from faculty or staff.
Two letters from external partnering organizations testifying to the nominee’s engaged scholarship involvement.

Submission

Completed applications should be submitted by email to COEAwards@outreach.psu.edu no later than December 20, 2024.

Applications will be reviewed and selected by a committee representing the Network for Student Engagement, the Faculty Senate, and student representation.

Questions

Questions concerning eligibility and nomination packet content should be directed to Richard Smith, co-chair of the Selection Committee, at res32@psu.edu.

Past Award Recipients

Established 2015

General Description

Eligibility and Submission Materials

Submission

Questions