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Awards
Penny Crane Award
The ACM SIGUCCS Penny Crane Award is a high-level award to recognize significant, multiple contributions from individuals over an extended period of time.
Hall of Fame
The ACM SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Award is an ongoing, web-based recognition of the many individuals who have contributed their time and energies to one or more things that have materially benefited SIGUCCS members in some way.
Communication Awards
Each year SIGUCCS sponsors Communication Awards to recognize outstanding web sites, publications and promotional materials produced by university and college computing centers. These awards recognize excellence in developing useful and appealing materials to enhance user services and offer attendees an opportunity to garner ideas to enhance their own efforts. A list of past winners can be seen on the ACM SIGUCCS website.
The awards will be presented at the SIGUCCS 2009 Fall Conference, October 11-14, in St. Louis Missouri. Winning entries will be displayed and available for perusal during the conference. Participants and any conference attendees are also encouraged to display their own materials in the Documentation Room at the conference.
In each category, the top entry will receive a "Best of Category" award, while other winners will receive an "Award of Excellence." In recognition of the differences in resources available to institutions of varying size, there may be two groups of competitors in a category. Schools with fewer than 4000 students will compete in Group 1 and those with 4000 or more in Group 2. The "Best of Category" award winners will be asked to present their materials at the conference Poster session. All award winners will be invited to a special recognition breakfast, which will be held during the conference.
Communication Award Categories
- Category 1: Web Sites
- 1a: Computing Services Public
- 1b: Computing Services Internal
- Category 2: Computing Newsletter
- 2a: Printed Computing Newsletter
- 2b: Electronic Computing Newsletter
- Category 3: How-to Guides and Instructional Material
- 3a: Printed How-to Guides
- 3b: Electronic How-to Guides
- 3c: Printed Instructional Classroom Material
- 3d: Electronic Instructional Classroom Material
- Category 4: Quick Reference Guides
- 4a: Printed Quick Reference Guides
- Category 5: Promotional Materials
- 5a: General Service Promotional Materials
- 5b: General Service Campaign Materials
- 5c: Student-Created Promotional Materials
- 5d: Short Promotional Video/Audio
- 5e: Long Promotional Video/Audio
- Category 6: Software Distribution
- 6a: Physical Media
- 6b: Electronic Media
Guidelines and Deadline
Entries are closed at this time.
Qualifications
- Your entry must be developed by staff affiliated with your institution.
- Institutions may present up to three entries for each category.
- An institution may not enter a category being judged by one of its own staff or faculty members.
- All awardees will be invited to the Awards Breakfast during the conference, where the official presentation of the awards will take place.
Note: The "Best of Category" winners in each category will be asked to judge the communication awards next year.
Spruce up your web pages, how-to-guides, training materials and newsletters. We want to see yours submitted! These materials provide a wonderful way to show others what you are doing and to allow others to gain insights into how to develop or enhance materials of their own.
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