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Awards Categories
Distinguished Service Award
This state/regional award is designed to pay the highest chapter tribute to an experienced Extension professional who has consistently exhibited continuing leadership and excellence in Extension, program planning, and delivery, and evaluation in program areas and/or administration over a career of 20 or more years. Data supporting measurable impacts of the candidate's work in meeting need of clientele will strengthen the nomination.
Continued Excellence Recognition
This gives recognition to an experienced Extension professional with twenty-plus years of experience who has exhibited continued leadership, initiative, and excellence in Extension program planning, delivery, evaluation in program or administration, on a state, regional and/or national level five years after receiving the state DSA award. Data supporting measurable impacts of the candidate’s work in meeting the needs of clientele will strengthen the nomination.
Administrative Leadership Recognition
This gives recognition to an Extension professional who has shown noteworthy administrative enthusiasm, performance, and accomplishment during their Extension Careers (10 years or more). Administrative leadership may be at county, regional, Chapter, program, department, or national level. Documentation of the candidate’s work in meeting the needs and furthering the efforts of supervised faculty, staff and/or program should be primary in this recognition.
Friend of Extension
This is the highest award presented by an Epsilon Sigma Phi chapter to a non- Extension (lay) person, and is designed to recognize truly outstanding support and personal involvement in Extension efforts.
Meritorious Support Service
This nationally authorized state award is designed to pay tribute to the staff in our system that, over time, have shown support for the mission and program of the Cooperative Extension Service. Such persons include staff members, program assistants, secretaries, etc.
Mid-Career
This award is designed to pay tribute to an experienced Extension professional (with 10-20 years of service) who has exhibited continuing leadership and excellence in state Extension program planning, delivery, and evaluation, in program areas and/or administration.
Early Career
This award is designed to recognize the achievements of rising young professionals who have shown noteworthy enthusiasm, performance, and accomplishment during their early Extension careers (less than 10 years) in program design and delivery.
Team Award
This state/chapter award is designed to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of a team of Extension staff in responding to and incorporating into a specific educational program one or more of the National Initiatives identified by the Cooperative Extension System. This application outline varies slightly. Please follow guidelines on page K- 4 on ESP website.
International Service
This nationally sponsored award is available to an Epsilon Sigma Phi member who has contributed significantly to the development and/or expansion of an Extension program in another country or countries through in-state and/or overseas work. This might include references to teaching/training foreign students in the U.S. about Extension; providing assistance in a cooperating host country; implementing new ideas and/or research in a host country; assisting with programs in a host country; and showing demonstrated competence in program leadership in education.
Retiree Service
This state/chapter award is designed to recognize continuing contributions and outstanding service by retired Extension professionals.
Tenure 25 Year Recognition
Recognition for 25 years of Extension service. The 25 year milestone has been almost universally spotlighted, and has been sanctioned by the National Board as one worthy of certificate recognition.
Visionary Leadership Recognition
This state award is designed to recognize Extension professionals whose significant accomplishments have resulted in leading Extension forward in new directions. This person's visionary leadership enabled Extension to anticipate a significant new opportunity and developed support to implement program organizational changes necessary to achieve success. See ESP website page K-12 for specific application information.
Diversity Recognition
The purpose of the diversity recognition is to recognize outstanding efforts and accomplishments in developing, achieving and sustaining diversity in Extension programs and/or audiences. Diversity is defined as acknowledging, understanding, valuing and celebrating differences among people relative to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status or sexual orientation. (List is not all-inclusive and not limited to those mentioned.) A separate application is available for the diversity award that outlines the requirements.
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